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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alex Kesselman, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuval Bachrach, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H01Q 3/26 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 84/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H01Q 3/26 (2013.01); H04B 7/0682 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04W 84/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising dynamically reserving free channel time blocks for directional transmissions in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) by a transceiver communicating with a Coordinator and the Coordinator allocating a part or a whole of unreserved channel time blocks for a directional link during a handshake with the transceiver.