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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:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Belwinder Singh Barn, Burnaby, CA;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370480 ; 370486 ; 370468 ; 370489 ;
Abstract
A network of terminals and a server linked by a communications medium, comprising a device for assigning a selected one of a plurality of downstream frequency channels for transferring information from the server to the terminals and a selected one of a plurality of upstream frequency channels for transferring information from each of the terminals and the server.