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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. 04, 2001
Filed:
May. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lee M. Proctor, Cary, IL (US);
Mark D. Hetherington, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Nai Sum Wong, Palatine, IL (US);
William K. Morgan, Palatine, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04T 3/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04T 3/22 ;
Abstract
Because prior-art rate determination algorithms are prone to falsing, a sub-rate discrimination metric generator (,) is provided herein. The generator (,) correlates a received frame with known characteristics of sub-rate frames to generate additional metrics useful in rate determination. These metrics are passed to a modified rate determination algorithm (,).