Patent ID: 8649319

Claim:
An apparatus for a first communication station operable to communicate data in a communication scheme that provides for mobile allocation index offset, said apparatus comprising: a radio element comprising a plurality of radio transceivers operable at a plurality of mobile allocations, said radio element transducing the data into electromagnetic form; an analyzer that receives a characteristic of the data, that analyzes communication resource requirements so that the data can be transmitted in a series of time division multiple access (TDMA) frames, and that determines resources needed for dynamic resource allocation; a resource allocator coupled to said analyzer to receive an indication of selection of a single mobile allocation index offset for each time period of operation within a TDMA frame to allocate resources upon said single mobile allocation index offset as a function of both resource availability and communication-station compatibility; and a message generator to generate at least one control message to be provided to said radio element to cause individual ones of the radio transceivers to be operable during periods in which individual ones of the mobile allocation index offsets are allocated for communication.