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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1997
Krishnan Ramakrishnan, Ashland, MA (US);
Stephen Schroeder, Avon, MA (US);
John A Perreault, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A system, device, and method for improving access in a hybrid contention/polling protocol maintains a list of active users, a list of recently active users, and a list of inactive users. An active user that becomes inactive is moved into the list of recently active users, and a recently active user that remains inactive is moved into the list of inactive users. A limited contention poll addressed to a number of inactive users and at least one recently active user authorizes any of the addressed users to contend for access to the shared channel. Upon detection of a collision, addressed users that are in the list of recently active users are polled individually, while the inactive users are sent a collision resolution poll which forces the inactive users to contend again for access. Users that become active are moved into the list of active users.