Patents Examined by Ken Vanderpoye
  • Patent number: 6094425
    Abstract: A dynamic and decentralized self-adaptive method and system including allocation of all time/frequency resources available at a given moment to as many requesting mobile units as are necessary. Transmission between stations is performed by allocation of frequencies. For each frequency allocated, the transmissions are grouped in slots forming frames in a time/frequency space. Each frame includes n slots of a same duration and a same width. The method includes using the allocated transmission frequencies and the frames for each transmission from a station by occupancy of one and the same number of slots according to a modulo p operation. A search is made, during a monitoring procedure, for free slots to determine parameters of occupation of a transmission as a function of the state of occupancy of the frames of the time/frequency space existing before the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Gerard Auger, Olivier Bacelon