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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Rongsheng Huang, Poway, CA (US);
Lichung Chu, San Diego, CA (US);
Shigeyuki Shoda, San Diego, CA (US);
Shinhaeng Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/04 (2009.01); H04J 3/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/212 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0225 (2013.01); H04W 74/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A time division multiple access (TDMA) media access control (MAC) protocol is provided for wireless body area networks (BANs). In particular, in some embodiments the described network devices utilize a reservation-based power saving polling (RESP) MAC protocol for communication. The RESP MAC can be configured to provide methods for emergency event handling of both bursty data and streaming data.