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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2012
Applicants:
Fei Tong, Royston, GB;
Mark Gorthorn Rison, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Fei Tong, Royston, GB;
Mark Gorthorn Rison, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/6418 (2013.01); H04W 74/006 (2013.01);
Abstract
Managing access to a time-slotted communications medium by masking interrogatory codes that are contained in signals demarcating time slots of the medium and comparing the masked interrogatory codes against masked response codes. Access to the medium is dependent on the outcome of these comparisons.