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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2009
Applicant:
Hongqiang Zhai, Ossining, NY (US);
Inventor:
Hongqiang Zhai, Ossining, NY (US);
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H04J 3/00 (2006.01); H04B 15/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method () for creating a group shared distributed reservation in a wireless network. The method comprises collecting information about the distributed reservation availabilities of devices in the wireless network (S); selecting a group of shared devices to be included in the group shared distributed reservation based on the collected information (S); sending a reservation request to each device in the group of shared devices (S); and updating the group of shared devices to include only devices that accept the reservation request (S), thereby creating a group shared distributed reservation of medium access time slots.