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US 2005/0239455 A1Published application
Method to manage medium access for a mixed wireless network
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorAdrian Stephens
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Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an access point may provide multiple access to a single medium by providing time division multiple access to the medium.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- during a first phase, transmitting a first communication to indicate an end to a medium reservation period for devices of a first type;
- and
- communicating with the devices of the first type during the first phase;
- wherein devices of a second type are prevented from initiating communication during the first phase by the medium reservation period.
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An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result in providing multiple access to a medium in a wireless local area network, the instructions to cause the computing platform to:
- during a first phase, transmit a first communication to indicate an end to a medium reservation period for devices of a first type;
- and
- communicate with the devices of the first type during the first phase;
- wherein devices of a second type are prevented from initiating communication by the medium reservation period.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- an omnidirectional antenna;
- a transceiver to couple to said antenna;
- and
- a baseband processor to couple to said transceiver, the baseband processor to reserve a period of time to communicate with devices of a first type during a first phase by transmitting a first communication to indicate to an end to a medium reservation period for the devices of the first type;
- wherein devices of a second type are prevented from initiating communication during the first phase by the medium reservation period.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.