Patent ID: 7359348

Claim:
A wireless communications method wherein a base station unit and a plurality of customer premises units covered by said base station unit communicate data wirelessly using data traffic channels, said method comprising: performing data communication between the base station unit and customer premises units by putting communications on standby for each unit of traffic data for which a communications request occurs, and then shifting to communications processing for each unit of traffic data on communication standby; managing communication standby information including information that distinguishes customer premises units on communication standby with regard to the customer premises units covered by the base station unit; based on said communication standby information, allocating data traffic channels to customer premises units on communication standby covered by the base station unit for each of said unit of traffic data during communication standby; and performing wireless communication of data between the base station unit and customer premises units using the portion of the data traffic channels allocated to said customer premises units; wherein: wireless communication between the base station unit and customer premises units covered by said base station unit is performed by means of a plurality of sequentially communicated frames; each frame contains data communication slots that constitute data traffic channels and are used for communication of the units of said traffic data; said communication standby information contains information indicating the number of units of said traffic data on communication standby in the customer premises units on communication standby; as the allocation of said data traffic channels, each time one unit of said traffic data on communication standby is moved to the communication process, the customer premises units on communication standby covered by the base station unit are switched one at a time in a periodic sequence, and a data communications slot contained in the first frame in which the data communications slot is not yet allocated is allocated to the switched customer premises unit; and the wireless communication of data between the base station unit and customer premises units is conducted using the data communication slot allocated to said customer premises units.