Patent ID: 7245920

Claim:
A method for use in a wireless terminal in a wireless multiple access communications system to detect allocation of a downlink traffic resource to the wireless terminal, said downlink traffic resource having been partitioned into an assignment channel resource including a plurality of downlink assignment segments and a downlink traffic channel resource including a plurality of downlink traffic segments, each downlink assignment segment corresponding to a downlink assignment segment in a predetermined fixed manner on a fixed one-to-one basis, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring said downlink wireless channel resource for downlink assignment segments to detect downlink assignment segments including an identifier used to identify said wireless terminal, any detected assignment segment including said identifier indicating an assignment of the downlink traffic segment corresponding to said detected assignment to said wireless terminal; in response to detecting that said wireless terminal's identifier is in a monitored downlink assignment segment, receiving traffic data from said downlink traffic segment corresponding, on said fixed one-to-one basis, to the monitored assignment segment that was detected to include said wireless terminal's identifier.