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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Applicant:
Alexander Sayenko, Espoo, FI;
Inventor:
Alexander Sayenko, Espoo, FI;
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/413 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An approach is provided for providing contention resolution for resources of a network. Individual contention resolution parameters are determined for respective multicast groups of terminals. The terminals within each of multicast groups able to perform contention resolution over a contention channel based on the respective individual contention resolution parameters.