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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Steve Dispensa, Shawnee Mission, KS (US);
Jason M. Sloderbeck, Kansas City, MO (US);
Steve Dispensa, Shawnee Mission, KS (US);
Jason M. Sloderbeck, Kansas City, MO (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A wireless control system uses wireless communications that include a plurality of channels and that are shared between a plurality of wireless communication devices. The wireless control system generates and transmits a first control message that allows first access to one of the channels for one of the wireless communication devices. The wireless control system receives a termination message indicating termination of the first access. The wireless control system processes the termination message to determine an amount of time for a second access to the one of the channels for the one of the wireless communication devices. The wireless control system then generates and transmits a second control message that allows the second access and indicates the amount of time. In other embodiments, the termination message indicates a number of packets or bytes remaining to be transmitted.