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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2016
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Riichi Kudo, Yokosuka, JP;

Hirantha Sithira Abeysekera, Yokosuka, JP;

Munehiro Matsui, Yokosuka, JP;

Takeo Ichikawa, Yokosuka, JP;

Masato Mizoguchi, Yokosuka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 24/00 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 74/0816 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless environment information collection system in which the wireless environment information management unit includes a unit which generates and outputs a channel measurement frame which determines the wireless stations performing stopping of communication over the first frequency channel for a fixed time, starting of measuring channel utilization of the first frequency channel, or both the stopping and the starting among the managed wireless stations, and the managed wireless stations include a unit which performs, at a time designated by the channel measurement frame from the wireless environment information management unit, the stopping of the communication over the first frequency channel, the measuring of the channel utilization of the first frequency channel, or both the stopping and the measuring, and which outputs the obtained wireless environment information to the wireless environment information management unit through the wired network or the wireless network.


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