Implicit reject response

US8971204B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8971204-B2
Application numberUS-201414171456-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateFeb 3, 2014
Priority dateOct 15, 2010
Publication dateMar 3, 2015
Grant dateMar 3, 2015

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A wireless communication network having received priority access requests on an access channel issues an implicit reject response on a grant channel, such as a flag or other value embedded in an explicit access grant or explicit access reject response. The implicit reject response applies to some or all outstanding low-priority access requests. At the expiration of a terminal's grant channel monitoring window, if it has detected an applicable implicit reject response but not an explicit response, the terminal will refrain from transmitting another access request for a predetermined or configurable duration. The implicit reject response may comprise a flag, or a value that implicitly rejects only a fraction of the outstanding low-priority access requests. The implicit reject response may comprise a duration that the terminal must wait prior to transmitting another access request, and may direct the terminal to directly monitor the grant channel without transmitting a subsequent access request.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method of responding to wireless communication network access requests from wireless terminals, comprising: monitoring network capacity; receiving at least two access requests on an access channel, said access requests being associated with either high-priority or low-priority wireless terminals; transmitting an explicit access response message in response to the access request of one of said wireless terminals; and, including in the explicit access…

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What does patent US8971204B2 cover?
A wireless communication network having received priority access requests on an access channel issues an implicit reject response on a grant channel, such as a flag or other value embedded in an explicit access grant or explicit access reject response. The implicit reject response applies to some or all outstanding low-priority access requests. At the expiration of a terminal's grant channel mo…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Ericsson Telefon Ab L M
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04W28/0215. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Mar 03 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
What related patents are in patentsdb?
We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).