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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2007
Applicants:
Kiyotaka Matsue, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyasu Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Youichirou Shiba, Fuchu, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wireless communication equipment system which performs wireless communication among one master station and more than one slave station is configured so that each of the slave stations requests the master station to reply acknowledgement frames so as to perform transmission acknowledgement to broadcast frames or multicast frames transmitted from the master station. The master station is configured to decide order of replies of the acknowledgement frames of the slave stations which have requested the replies of the acknowledgement frames and to notify the order of the replies of the acknowledgement frames.