Patent ID: 7412517

Claim:
A method for allocating a shared wireless bandwidth in a packet-centric wireless point to multi-point telecommunications system, the method comprising: analyzing contents of packets to be communicated over the shared wireless bandwidth in a downlink direction from a wireless base station to at least one customer premises equipment (CPE) station; analyzing reservation requests for packets to be communicated in the unlink direction from the at least one CPE station to the wireless base station, wherein each reservation request comprises a subscriber identifier and at least one other subscriber attribute, wherein the analyzing includes processing the subscriber identifier and the at least one other subscriber attribute to schedule packets in the uplink direction; and allocating the shared wireless bandwidth between the wireless base station transmitting in the downlink direction and the at least one CPE station transmitting in the uplink direction based on the analyzed contents and the analyzed reservation requests, wherein allocating the shared bandwidth comprises: assigning slots in a frame to the at least one CPE station; and communicating the assigned slots to the at least one CPE station in a reservation request acknowledgement section of a frame.