Patent ID: 7379478

Claim:
A system for allocating a power budget between at least two different communication channels, one of which comprises a voice channel and the other one of which comprises a data channel, comprising: at least two receiving-stations, which between them are configured to receive all of the at least two different communication channels; and, a transmitting-station for transmitting each of the channels to at least one of the receiving-stations using a portion of the power budget, the portions being allocated by said transmitting-station such that the power budget is substantially consumed, wherein said transmitting-station is configured such that the allocation of power to the voice channel for a subsequent time period is based on the actual power consumed by the voice channel for a known time period, wherein the known time period comprises a current time period and the subsequent time period immediately follows the current time period, wherein said transmitting-station is configured such that a remaining portion of the power budget is allocated to a data channel for the subsequent time period based on the amount of power that is not allocated to the voice channel for that subsequent time period, and wherein each of the time periods is from about one millisecond to about forty milliseconds.