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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication method in a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes connected to at least one access point node, the nodes being able to transmit data on at least one communication channel using a contention access method according to a contention parameter set, the method comprising, at a node, transmitting a given type of traffic during a dedicated service period allocated by the access point node, and switching, at the end of the dedicated service period, from a first contention parameter set to a second contention parameter set for contention access to the communication channel after a successful transmission of the given type of traffic during the dedicated service period.