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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. 17, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas M. Siep, Garland, TX (US);
Ronald E. Stafford, Wylie, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a wireless network including a master processing device ( ) for generating information and broadcasting the information through wireless, transmission of signals and a plurality of client processing devices ( ) having circuitry for receiving the information from the master processing device ( ) and transmitting other information to the master processing device ( ). The master processing device ( ) selects one of the plurality of client processing devices ( ) to acknowledge the receipt of the information from the master processing device.