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US 2005/0009529 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for multi-phase wireless handshaking
AssigneeArrayComm, Inc.
InventorsJohn Chen, Brett Schein, Prasanna Kannan, Tae-In Hyon
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses associated with multi-phase wireless handshaking. A user terminal enters handshaking with an access point. The access point may respond to an access request of the user terminal with an access assignment, and alternatively, with a message indicating an assignment will not be presently given. The handshaking process could then be completed at a later time.
Claims76
A method for wireless communication comprising:
- receiving a random access message from a remote terminal on an uplink of a wireless exchange period;
- determining whether to transmit on a downlink of the wireless exchange period an access assignment or an access assignment delay message;
- and
- transmitting to the remote terminal a signal having an access assignment or a delay message, based on what was determined.
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A method comprising:
- receiving on an uplink of a wireless communication event a resource request;
- transmitting on a downlink of the event an acknowledgement, the acknowledgement indicating that a resource assignment is not immediately available;
- receiving on an uplink of a later wireless communication event a follow-up request;
- and
- transmitting on a downlink of the later event, in response to the follow-up request, the access assignment.
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A method for wireless handshaking, comprising:
- sending a channel request to an access point on an uplink of a frame;
- receiving on a downlink of the frame a channel assignment status message in response to sending the channel request;
- and
- sending a repeat channel request on an uplink of a later frame if the status message indicates an assignment is unavailable.
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An article of manufacture comprising:
- a machine accessible medium having content to provide instructions to cause an electronic device to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a random access message from a remote terminal on an uplink of a wireless communication frame;
- determining whether to transmit on a downlink of the frame an access assignment or an access assignment delay message;
- and
- transmitting to the remote terminal a signal having an access assignment or a delay message, based on what was determined.
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A wireless device comprising:
- an antenna array to receive a wireless communication including a resource request from a remote unit, and transmit a wireless communication including sending a message in response to the resource request;
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- a processing unit coupled with the antenna array to process the communications, the processing unit to have a central processor to manage assignment of resources and an application specific processor to control a resource, the processing unit to process the resource request received at the antenna array on a frame of a wireless communication and prepare a message to be transmitted on the frame from the antenna array to the remote unit in response to the resource request, the prepared message to indicate either a resource assignment or a status of a resource assignment.
An electronic circuit comprising:
- a general purpose processor to manage traffic channel assignment for a wireless device;
- and
- an application specific processor coupled with the general purpose processor to manage a traffic channel, the application specific processor to receive a random access message on a frame and determine whether to make a traffic channel assignment on the frame or indicate on the frame to the sender of the random access message that a traffic channel assignment is unavailable at the time of the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.