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Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lawrence Winston Yonge, III, Summerfield, FL (US);

Srinivas Katar, Gainesville, FL (US);

Manjunath Anandarama Krishnam, Gainesville, FL (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/915 (2013.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/727 (2013.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04L 12/729 (2013.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/413 (2006.01); H04L 12/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/787 (2013.01); H04L 12/2801 (2013.01); H04L 12/413 (2013.01); H04L 45/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/121 (2013.01); H04L 45/122 (2013.01); H04L 45/123 (2013.01); H04L 45/125 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5445 (2013.01); H04L 12/2856 (2013.01); H04L 12/44 (2013.01);
Abstract

Communicating among stations in a network includes, from each of multiple stations in the network, transmitting information indicating which other stations from which that station is able to reliably receive transmissions. A schedule for communicating among the stations is determined based on the information from the stations and transmitting the schedule over the network. The schedule includes a plurality of time slots during which respective contention groups of stations are assigned to communicate using a contention-based protocol.


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