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AssigneeNeuil Ltd.
InventorWilliam Webb
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Abstract
A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals, the communication device being configured to determine that a network event will affect the plurality of terminals and could trigger each of those terminals to attempt to transmit information relating to the network event to the communication device and arrange so that only a subset of the plurality of terminals will attempt to transmit in response to the network event.
Claims18
A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals, the communication device being configured to:
- receive at the communication device a message from at least one of the terminals informing the communication device that said terminal has detected an alert condition, causing the terminal to enter an alert mode;
- determine at the communication device that others of the plurality of terminals may attempt to transmit messages to the communication device informing the communication device that they have detected the same alert condition;
- identify at the communication device other terminals of the plurality of terminals that are likely to be affected by the same alert condition;
- arrange so that only a subset of those other terminals attempt to transmit a message to the communication device in response to the alert condition;
- and
- instruct the others of the plurality of terminals to transmit their information relating to the alert condition via non-contended access.
A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals, the communication device being configured to:
- receive at the communication device a message from at least one of the terminals informing the communication device that said terminal has detected an alert condition, causing the terminal to enter an alert mode;
- determine at the communication device that others of the plurality of terminals may attempt to transmit messages to the communication device informing the communication device that they have detected the same alert condition;
- identify at the communication device other terminals of the plurality of terminals that are likely to be affected by the same alert condition;
- arrange so that only a subset of those other terminals attempt to transmit a message to the communication device in response to the alert condition;
- and
- instruct the others of the plurality of terminals to transmit their information relating to the alert condition via non-contended access;
- wherein the alert condition is associated with a broadcast message transmitted by the communication device, the communication device being configured to anticipate that the plurality of terminals may attempt to transmit requests for retransmission of all or part of the broadcast message.
A method for communicating with a plurality of terminals, comprising:
- receiving at a communication device a message from at least one of the terminals that said terminal has detected an alert condition. causing the terminal to enter an alert mode;
- determining at the communication device that others of the plurality of terminals may attempt to transmit messages informing the communication device that they have detected the alert condition;
- identifying at the communication device other of the plurality of terminals that are likely to be affected by the alert condition;
- arranging so that only a subset of those other terminals attempt to transmit in response to the alert condition;
- and
- instructing the others of the plurality of terminals to transmit their information relating to the alert condition via non-contended access.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.