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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Esmail Dinan, Herndon, VA (US);
Vijay Rudraraju, Herndon, VA (US);
Howard Anderson, Ashburn, VA (US);
Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Herndon, VA (US);
Daniel Vivanco, Herndon, VA (US);
Esmail Dinan, Herndon, VA (US);
Vijay Rudraraju, Herndon, VA (US);
Howard Anderson, Ashburn, VA (US);
Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Herndon, VA (US);
Daniel Vivanco, Herndon, VA (US);
Clearwire IP Holdings LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
In an exemplary embodiment, a communication system is configured to engage in a plurality of ranging processes, and a pool of ranging codes is available to client devices for requesting the ranging processes. The pool is divided into groups of ranging codes, and each group includes ranging codes allocated for requesting a particular ranging process. The system comprises (a) a receiver that is configured to receive a plurality of requests from one or more client devices, wherein each request comprises a ranging code that is allocated for requesting a particular ranging process and (b) program code stored in data storage and executable by a processor to (i) use the ranging codes from the requests to determine a quantity of requests received, respectively, for each ranging process and (ii) based on the determined quantity of received requests for at least one ranging process, adjust the allocation of the ranging codes.