US 8,134,963 B1 · Method and system for reducing connection set-up time

Abstract

A method of connection setup in mobile wireless data communications systems is disclosed where the connection setup time is decreased for delay-sensitive communications sessions relative to the normal connection setup time for confidence-dependent communications sessions. This is achieved by performing some of the connection set-up steps for delay-sensitive communications sessions after successfully demodulating a smaller number of indications identifying an access terminal's desired serving resource than would be demodulated in the case of a confidence-dependent communication session prior to performing the same connection set-up steps.

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Dependent claims

A method of setting up a communications link between an access terminal and an access network, the method comprising the steps of:

a) receiving a connection request and a set of potential access network serving sectors from the access terminal for said communications link;
b) sending a traffic channel allocation to the access terminal identifying an initial subset of the set of potential access network serving sectors for said communications link;
and
c) sending a reverse traffic channel acknowledgement indication to the access terminal, via at least one access network serving sector selected from the initial subset, before a desired access network serving sector for said communications link is fully acquired, wherein said communications link is a single communications link.

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Method and system for reducing connection set-up time

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