Shared time universal multiple access network
AssigneeAster Wireless
InventorsMark E. Schrader, Allen D. Heberling
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Abstract
A method of controlling access to a network media by a plurality of stations, the method including determining a number of time slots; determining a number of slot cycles for each time slot, at least one of the time slots having more than one slot cycle; assigning each station one or more slot cycles in one or more time slots; and operating each of the stations by initializing an access timer to time out at the beginning of the station's assigned slot cycle(s) and transmitting data during the assigned slot cycle(s), the access timer being stopped whenever a station transmits over the network, and restarted at the end of transmission.
Claims10
A method of controlling access to a network media by a plurality of stations, the method comprising:
- determining a number of time slots;
- determining a number of slot cycles for each time slot, at least one of the time slots having more than one slot cycle;
- assigning each station one or more slot cycles in one or more time slots;
- and
- operating each of the stations by initializing an access timer to time out at the beginning of the station's assigned slot cycle(s) and transmitting data during the assigned slot cycle(s), the access timer being stopped whenever a station transmits over the network, and restarted at the end of transmission.
A method of controlling access to a network media by a plurality of stations, the method comprising:
- determining a number of time slots;
- determining a number of slot cycles for each time slot, at least one of the time slots having more than one slot cycle;
- and
- assigning each station one or more slot cycles in one or more time slots.
A method of controlling access to a network media by a plurality of stations, the method comprising:
- determining a number of time slots;
- and
- determining a number of slot cycles for each time slot, and
- wherein at least one of the time slots has a plurality of slot cycles, and at least two of the stations are assigned to different ones of the plurality of slot cycles.
A method of controlling access to a network media by a plurality of stations, the method comprising:
- determining a number of slot cycles for each of a plurality of time slots, and
- wherein different stations are assigned to different slot cycles in at least one of the time slots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.