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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:
May. 23, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370338 ; 370445 ;
Abstract
A method and system of operating a wireless local area network station adapted to transmit and receive a signal within a communication cell. The method includes the steps of establishing a carrier detect threshold level, establishing a defer threshold level, and transmitting a signal when the signal level detected by the network station is above the defer threshold level. Additionally, the method further includes the step of receiving a signal transmission intended for the network station when the power of the received signal transmission is above the carrier detect threshold level.