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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kai Yin Eng, Middletown, NJ (US);
Mark John Karol, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370389 ; 370394 ; 370395 ; 370348 ;
Abstract
An access method allows an end-user device (mobile or stationary) a) to place stand-alone requests for access to a communications network for transmission thereto of one or more information packets arriving at an empty buffer of the end user-device, and b) to piggyback the requests with packet transmissions for subsequent information packets arriving at a non-empty buffer of the end-user device.