United States Patent 7,746,833
Terry June 29, 2010
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Wireless communication system with selectively sized data transport blocks
Abstract
A wireless transmit receive unit and methods for code division multiple access telecommunications are disclosed that process data in a physical layer and a medium access control (MAC) layer. The physical and MAC layers communicate data between each other via transport channels. The transport channels are associated with logical channels. Logical-channel data for the transport channels is provided in data units having a bit size evenly divisible by an integer N. The respective logical channels associated with a transport channel utilize MAC headers that have a selected modulo N bit size such that there is bit alignment of the MAC headers of all the logical channels associated with a particular transport channel. Preferably, the MAC headers and data units are combined into transport blocks (TBs) to transport data over the transport channels with bit padding such that the TBs have a bit size evenly divisible by N.
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Inventors: Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY)
Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Appl. No.: 11/363,809
Filed: February 28, 2006
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Current U.S. Class: 370/335 ; 370/342; 370/474
Current International Class: H04B 7/216 (20060101); H04J 3/24 (20060101)
Field of Search: 370/335,342,389,392,395.1,469,468,470,471,474,479,391
