Combined frame of two communication protocols on same carrier for machine-to-machine and for broadband communication
AssigneeNeul Ltd.
InventorWilliam Webb
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Abstract
A communication device configured to communicate with a plurality of terminals via a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, wherein both protocols organize communications into a series of frames and the frames of the first protocol are shorter than those of the second protocol, the communication device being configured to impose one or more frames according to the first protocol onto at least part of a frame according to the second protocol to form a single frame for communicating via both protocols.
Claims20
A communication device comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory computer readable medium connected to the processor and having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- communicate with a plurality of terminals via a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, wherein both protocols organize communications into a series of frames and frames of the first protocol are shorter than those of the second protocol;
- impose two or more frames according to the first protocol onto at least part of a frame according to the second protocol to form a single frame for communicating via both protocols;
- form the single frame with one or more time slots representing the two or more frames according to the first protocol;
- allocate the time slots representing a frame according to the first protocol to communications via either the first or the second protocol;
- create a map in the single frame including a map having information describing an allocation of resources in the single frame to each of the plurality of terminals;
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- transmit, within the single frame, data according to the first protocol and the second protocol.
A method for communicating with a plurality of terminals via a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, wherein both protocols organize communications into a series of frames and the frames of the first protocol are shorter than those of the second protocol, the method comprising:
- imposing two or more frames according to the first protocol onto at least part of a frame according to the second protocol to form a single frame for communicating via both protocols;
- forming the single frame with one or more time slots representing the two or more frames according to the first protocol;
- allocating the time slots representing a frame according to the first protocol to communications via either the first or the second protocol;
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- transmitting, within the single frame, data according to the first protocol and the second protocol, the single frame including a map having information describing an allocation of resources in the single frame to each of the plurality of terminals.
A communication terminal comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory computer readable medium connected to the processor and having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- communicate via a machine-to-machine communication protocol and an internet communication protocol, the internet communications protocol using first frames, and the machine-to-machine communication protocol using second frames having a duration greater than a duration of at least two of the first frames in sequence;
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- operate as a terminal for communications under the machine-to-machine protocol and as an access point for communications under the internet protocol by transmitting first data in one of the first frames and with second data in one of the second frames, wherein in two or more of the first frames are disposed completely within time slots of the one of the second frames, wherein each of the second frames includes a map having information describing an allocation of resources in the respective one of the second frames to each of the plurality of terminals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.