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US 2004/0024871 A1Published application
Point coordinator delegation in a wireless network
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorDuncan M. Kitchin
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Abstract
A point coordinator in a wireless network, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN), may have the authority to control access to a channel by nodes in the network. The point coordinator may delegate the authority to a node in the network which requests access. The point coordinator may limit the extent of the delegation to a certain transaction or a predetermined amount of time.
Claims26
A method comprising:
- controlling access to a channel by nodes in a wireless network;
- and
- temporarily delegating control of access to the channel to a first node in said plurality of nodes.
An article comprising:
- a machine-readable medium which stores machine-executable instructions, the instructions causing a machine to:
- control access to a channel by nodes in a wireless network;
- and
- temporarily delegate control of access to the channel to a first node in said plurality of nodes.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a point coordinator operative to control access to a channel by a plurality of nodes in a wireless network;
- a point coordination manager operative to delegate control of access to the channel to a first node in said plurality of nodes for a period of delegation.
A system comprising:
- a point coordinator operative to control access to a channel in a wireless network, said point coordinator including
- a transceiver operative to communicate over the channel, and
- a point coordination manager operative to delegate control of access to the channel for a first period of delegation in response to a request for access to the channel;
- and
- a first node including
- transceiver operative to communicate over the channel,
- a control unit operative to send a request for access to the point coordinator, and
- a point coordination delegate operative to control access to the channel during the first period of delegation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.