Method and arrangement for transferring information in a packet radio service
AssigneeIntellectual Ventures I LLC
InventorsMika Forssell, Janne Parantainen
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Abstract
A method and an arrangement for transferring information including delay sensitive data, such as speech and video data, in a packet radio service is provided. Data blocks are transmitted from a mobile station to a radio resource entity during a first active data transfer period using an uplink temporary block flow (TBF) connection. The uplink TBF connection is maintained during a passive period that follows the first active data transfer period, wherein during the passive period the mobile station does not send data blocks to the radio resource entity.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- transmitting data blocks from a mobile station to a radio resource entity during a first active data transfer period using an uplink temporary block flow (TBF) connection;
- and
- maintaining the uplink TBF connection during a passive period that follows the first active data transfer period, wherein during the passive period the mobile station does not send data blocks to the radio resource entity.
A mobile station for communicating with a radio resource entity in a communications system, comprising:
- a transceiver to transmit wireless communications to and receive wireless communications from radio resource entities in the communications system via data channels and control channels associated with such communications;
- a controller to control transmission of data blocks to the radio resource entity via the transceiver during a first active data transfer period using an uplink temporary block flow (TBF) connection and to maintain the uplink TBF connection during a passive period that follows the first active data transfer period, wherein during the passive period the mobile station does not send data blocks to the radio resource entity.
A radio resource entity of a communications system for communicating with a mobile station, the radio resource entity configured to:
- receive data blocks from the mobile station during a first active data transfer period using an uplink temporary block flow (TBF) connection on a packet data channel between the mobile station and the radio resource entity;
- and
- maintain the uplink TBF connection during a passive period that follows the first active data transfer period, wherein the passive period occurs when the mobile station does not send data blocks to the radio resource entity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.