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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Inventors:
Thomas H. Williams, Fairways Dr., CO (US);
Matthew D. Schmitt, Broomfield, CO (US);
Assignee:
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/085 (2013.01); H04L 5/0005 (2013.01); H04L 5/0071 (2013.01); H04L 5/0073 (2013.01); H04W 72/1231 (2013.01); H04W 72/121 (2013.01);
Abstract
Scheduling of transmission opportunities to prevent collisions is contemplated. The transmission opportunities may be scheduled for terminal units where transmissions of one terminal unit may collide or otherwise interfere with transmissions of another terminal unit. The transmission opportunities may be scheduled according to a time-frequency grid to prevent collisions in a time domain and/or a frequency domain.