Patent ID: 6922401

Claim:
A method of transmitting data over a bidirectional radio channel, the method comprising: dividing digital data that is to be transmitted into a first set of individual data packets according to a first data transmission protocol; dividing, at a transmitting and receiving station of the bidirectional radio channel, the data according to a second data transmission protocol into a second set of individual data packets; and transmitting the second set of individual data packets alternately forward and in reverse between transmitting and receiving stations over the radio channel by a simplex transmission operation, wherein, at each transmitting and receiving station a number, a length, a priority, and/or a type of the first set of individual data packets generated by the first data transmission protocol is determined as a data packet identifier, and a length of the second set of data packets generated by the second data transmission protocol is determined in at least one of the transmitting and receiving stations as a function of these data packet identifiers for optimum utilization of radio channel capacity.