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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:
Dec. 27, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2021
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Toshio Ito, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1205 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention is a wireless communication system including at least a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device that periodically switch a reception channel and wirelessly communicate. The first device detects an overlap schedule period during which the first device and the second device use an identical reception channel, based on use schedule periods of the reception channel of both the devices, determines to extend or reduce the use schedule period of the reception channel of the first device, based on the detected overlap schedule period, adjusts the use schedule period of the reception channel of the first device so as to be extended or reduced according to the determination, and switches the reception channel at an expiration time point of the adjusted use schedule period.


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