Patent ID: 7263377

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: two or more remote units, each remote unit comprising: a radio transceiver for communication with a base; and a memory module, wherein the memory module includes an indication of a combination of two or more tones, the combined tones representing an indication of an access request and a priority request; and a stationary base station of a fixed wireless network, the base comprising: a wireless transceiver for communicating with a publicly switched telephone network and the Internet; a radio transceiver for communicating with one or more remote units; a memory module; and a processor, the processor being adapted to receive the indication of an access request and a priority request from the two or more remote units, wherein the processor is further adapted to analyze the priority requests to determine which remote units will be granted access to an uplink channel, and wherein further the processor is adapted to transmit an indication of which remote units have been granted access to an uplink channel based in part on the priority request represented by the combined two or more tones.