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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2008
Filed:
May. 28, 2002
Applicant:
Jan P. Kruys, Harmelen, NL;
Inventor:
Jan P. Kruys, Harmelen, NL;
Assignee:
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An access control method for a medium, a media access controller and a wireless communication system incorporating the method or the controller. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) allowing first and second devices to employ a control channel defined in the medium to identify mutually available ones of a plurality of time and frequency dependent data communication elements defined in the medium and (2) thereafter granting the first and second devices access to the mutually available ones to enable data communication therebetween.