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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:
Oct. 21, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2004
Applicants:
Michael H. Retzer, Palatine, IL (US);
Randy L. Ekl, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Joseph E. Phillips, Huntley, IL (US);
Inventors:
Michael H. Retzer, Palatine, IL (US);
Randy L. Ekl, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Joseph E. Phillips, Huntley, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for improving throughput in a wireless local area (WLAN), which includes buffering a set of messages, identifying a target address for the set of messages, and concatenating the set of messages based on the target address. The target address can be either unicast, broadcast, multicast or combination of unicast, broadcast and multicast as described herein.