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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2006
Applicants:
Kei Igarashi, Yokosuka, JP;
Akira Yamada, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Fujiwara, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wireless communication apparatus comprises a transmission buffer configured to store packets addressed to one or more communication nodes in the network until a transmission timing; a requesting interval determination unit configured to determine a listen interval for each of the communication nodes based on the amount and/or the priority of packets accumulated in the transmission buffer; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a request frame to each of the communication nodes to request the communication nodes to receive a beacon from the wireless communication apparatus at the determined listen interval.