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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
David F Bantz, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Anand Narasimhan, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455 341 ; 455 541 ; 455 582 ; 379 59 ;
Abstract
This invention discloses a method and apparatus for acquiring and maintaining a cellular wireless communications subnetwork on an Ad Hoc basis, where mobile units within a cellular network communicate with each other using only a single communications channel of the entire cellular wireless communications network.