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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:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2004
Applicants:
Jae Sung Lim, Suwon-si, KR;
Soon Jin Choi, Seongnam-si, KR;
Eui Hyeok Kwon, Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ajou University Industry Corporation Foundation, Suwon-Si, Kyeonggi-Do, KR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for communicating with seven or more terminals in a Bluetooth system of a Wireless Personal Area Network (W-PAN). In the method and apparatus, a sniff mode allowing slaves to be in a sleep state for a Sniff Interval Time (SIT) is converted into an active mode for a service such that a master can efficiently communicate with seven or more slaves using conventional seven Active Member Addresses (AM_ADDR).