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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002

Filed:

Jan. 21, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:

Thomas Yat Chung Woo, Red Bank, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/16 ;
Abstract

The present invention is a method and system of half-duplex wireless communication where a premises has a base station that services a defined communication cell. The base station transmits and receives Request to Send and Clear to Send announcements to and from mobile stations to indicate that the base station can send and receive data. A plurality of mobile stations send and receive data after transmitting and receiving Clear to Send and Request to Send announcements to and from the base station based on the respective time period in which the base station has received the Clear to Send and Request to Send announcements from respective mobile stations.


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