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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:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Depeng Bi, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/264 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/264 ;
Abstract
A system which enables a plurality of wireless interface devices to be connected by way of a radio link to a server in either a wired or wireless LAN. On power-up for the wireless interface device, the wireless interface device upon initiation broadcasts for available servers available for connection. The system automatically determines the server with the least amount of load and displays that server on a dialog box on the display of the wireless interface device. The user is then able to select that server from the dialog box.