Patent ID: 6912211

Claim:
A system for code division packet switching at a destination access radio port of a terrestrial wireless network, where said destination access radio port interfaces with a plurality of destination mobile subscriber terminals located within a microport cell of said terrestrial wireless network, comprising: means for transmitting a paging message to one of said plurality of destination mobile subscriber terminals over a paging channel indicating that there is payload data for said one of said plurality of destination mobile subscriber terminals; means for receiving an acknowledgement from said one of said plurality of destination mobile subscriber terminals; means for spreading said payload data extracted from an ATM packet with a uniquely assigned orthogonal code; means for transmitting said spread payload data to said one of said plurality of destination mobile subscriber terminals; means for waiting for a time-out period for a negative acknowledgement; and means for releasing said uniquely assigned orthogonal code if no negative acknowledgement is received within said timeout period.