Patent ID: 7006477

Claim:
A system for communicating using wireless time division multiplexed communications in which time is divided into a plurality of frames and each frame is divided into data bursts, and a predefined number of consecutive even and odd numbered frames defines a multiframe, said system comprising: means for defining a channel as a series of data bursts that occur periodically every N data bursts once per frame, where N is a positive integer; means for transmitting digital information as data bursts over said channel from a first station to a second station, wherein 0246/1357 interleaving is used within the multiframe; the data bursts in said channel being assigned to one of even or odd frames within the multiframe so that only the one of the even or odd frames is needed for communications over said channel, the 0246/1357 interleaving providing a lower delay to the start of a talkspurt than 0123/4567 interleaving.