Method for communicating in a network and radio stations associated
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsPaul Bucknell, Milos Tesanovic, Matthew P.J. Baker, Timothy J. Moulsley
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network comprising a primary station and at least one secondary station, said secondary station comprising a buffer containing data packets to be transmitted to the primary station, the method comprising the step of the secondary station transmitting an indication of the buffer status to the primary station, said indication comprising information about history of said buffer.
Claims11
A method for communicating in a network comprising a primary station and at least one secondary station, said secondary station comprising a buffer containing data packets to be transmitted to the primary station, the method comprising the step of the secondary station transmitting an indication of the buffer status to the primary station, said indication comprising information about at least one of history and future of said buffer.
A secondary station (200) comprising means for communicating with a primary station (100), said secondary station comprising a buffer containing data packets to be transmitted to the primary station, the secondary station comprising transmitting means (210) for transmitting an indication of the buffer status to the primary station, said indication comprising information about history of said buffer.
A primary station (100) comprising means for communicating with at least one secondary station (200), said primary station comprising means for receiving an indication of the buffer status from the secondary station, said indication comprising information about history of said buffer, and allocation means for allocating a transmission resource to the secondary station in accordance with the information about history of the buffer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.