Apparatus for exchanging data between a central station and a plurality of wireless remote stations on a time divided commnication channel
AssigneeSpectrix Corporation
InventorCarolyn Heide
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided for exchanging data between a central station and a plurality of wireless remote stations on a time division multiple access communication channel. The apparatus includes device for receiving access requests from remote stations of the plurality of remote stations during a first time interval under a contention based protocol and a non-contention based protocol and device for polling for data transfers during a second time period remote stations of the plurality of remote stations providing access requests under non-contention based protocols during the first time period.
Claims5
An apparatus for exchanging data between a central station and a plurality of wireless remote stations on a time divided multiple access communication channel comprising:
- means for receiving access requests from remote stations of the plurality of remote stations during a first time interval under a contention based protocol and a non-contention based protocol;
- and means for authorizing a data transfer during a second time period by a remote station providing an access request under a non-contention based protocol of the plurality of remote stations providing access requests under the contention and non-contention based protocols during the first time period.
An apparatus for reducing a duty-cycle of activation of a remote station exchanging data with a central station on a wireless time divided multiple access communication channel comprising:
- means for receiving an access request from the remote station during a first time interval under one of a contention based protocol and a non-contention based protocol;
- means for exchanging data during a second time period with the remote station providing the access request under the non-contention based protocol during the first time period for data transfers;
- and means for providing a temporal length of the first and second time periods to the remote station by the central station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.