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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2000
Marouane Berrada, Creteil, FR;
Américo Brajal, Villeneuve-le-Roi, FR;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Disclosed is a communication system comprising a main station, a transmission medium, and terminals. The terminals transmit requests to the main station have reservations granted to them on the transmission medium. Each request indicates a number of reservations. Upon receiving a request, the main station adds the number of reservations indicated to an allocation counter associated with the requesting terminal. The invention enables the requesting method to be less vulnerable to data losses. It consists in a resetting of the request counter and allocation counter, for example when an anomaly is detected in the transmission of the data.