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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2000
Rajugopal R. Gubbi, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Amar Ghori, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Gregory H. Parks, Folsom, CA (US);
ShareWave, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A scheme for sharing a channel during a contention free period of communications between two or more basic service sets (BSSs) including network components in an overlapping region of a wireless computer network. These network components in the overlapping region may be configured to communicate in contention free periods only. Such bandwidth sharing may then include transmitting within each BSS exclusively during an allocated period of time. Each BSS may include one point coordinator network component and all other network components in the BSS then inform the point coordinator of channel conditions including degradation, and the number of packets received from other BSSs.