Patent ID: RE40715

Claim:
Method of allocating time slots in a time division duplex communication system, in which information is transmitted and received in predetermined time frames each having a predetermined number of time slots, wherein first and second types of time slots selected from receiving and transmitting type time slots are allocated, the first time slot of each frame is allocated as the first type of time slot, and the second time slot of each frame is allocated as the second type of time slot, said method comprising: determining, based on an amount of information to be transferred, whether at least one time slot following the second time slot of a current frame should be allocated as the first type of time slot, and if so, always allocating the last time slot of the current frame as the first type of time slot, whereby the last time slot of the current frame and the first time slot of a succeeding frame are the same type of time slots; and allocating time slots following the second time slot of the current frame as additional receiving or transmitting time slots dependent on an amount of information to be transmitted and/or received, wherein if additional time slot(s) are allocated for the second type of time slot, always allocating at least the third time slot of the current frame as an additional second type time slot.