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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:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2005
Applicant:
Joerg Habetha, Aachen, DE;
Inventor:
Joerg Habetha, Aachen, DE;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system (), device (), and method are provided for decentralized medium access control comprising periodic beacon () transmissions of all active devices in beacon slots () () (), grouping such beacon slots () () () in at least one contiguous dynamic beacon period (), and expanding or shrinking this at least one contiguous dynamic beacon period () depending on the number of occupied beacon slots () () (). The dynamic beacon period () adapts to devices () joining and leaving the network () as well as to collisions of beacon frames () on the medium ().