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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Eric Frans Elisa Borghs, Geel, BE;
Inventor:
Eric Frans Elisa Borghs, Geel, BE;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a transmission environment, such as a wireless environment, the communication channelmay be subject to noise bursts. When the transmittersends a frame() to the receiver, it may collide with a noise burst. The receiveris adapted to send a retransmission request,() Original, when it receives corrupted data from transmitter. The duration of the noise may be sufficient to also interfere with the request,() Original. The receiver includes channel monitoring means to detect noise and to delay the sending of the retransmission request,() Delayed, based on the level of the noise.