Patent ID: 8717979

Claim:
A method for radio communications in a packet-based communications system, comprising: in response to radio resource requests associated with specific user devices, dynamically scheduling radio resources to permit communications between ones of the specific user devices and the packet-based communications system, where the scheduled communications associated with each of the user devices in the packet-based communications system are designed not to use the same radio resource at the same time; establishing an unsolicited grant of radio resources for communication of user data content between multiple user devices and the packet-based communications system, where the communication of user data content between multiple user devices and the packet-based communications system uses at least some of the same radio resources associated with the unsolicited grant at the same time and where the user data content is different from pilot information that may also be communicated between the multiple user devices and the packet-based communications system; processing each of the multiple user's data content to be transmitted to combine each of the multiple user's data content with a corresponding user-specific radio resource pattern that is also different from pilot information such that one user's corresponding radio resource pattern is useable by a radio receiver to extract that one user's data content from the multiple user transmissions received using the same unsolicited grant of radio resources at the same time; and transmitting the processed data for each of the multiple user devices using the same unsolicited grant of radio resources at the same time.