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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. 03, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2000
Wesley Stuart Jones, Palatine, IL (US);
William A. Payne, III, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Mororola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a subscriber device ( ), method ( ), wireless router ( ), and communication system ( ). The communication system ( ) includes at least one subscriber device ( ) having a message generator ( ) for generating a message which includes an indicator of a receive/transmit switching time, and the wireless router ( ) for communicating with at least one subscriber device, the wireless router having a scheduler ( ), optimizer ( ), and an allocation map generator ( ), wherein the wireless router ( ) prepares an efficient and optimized channel allocation map for transmission to the subscriber device ( ) taking into account the indicator of the receive/transmit switching time for the subscriber device ( ) and wherein the map indicates at least one allocated transmit time, in a form of a block, having a beginning and an end, for transmission by the subscriber device following a receive time.