Granted Patent
Utility
US 5,734,833 · App. 08/614,987
Shared communications channel with enhanced reservation and collision resolution protocols allows any subset of stations to transmit data after collision occured in contention slot
Inventors:
Ran-Fun Chiu, Ning Bi
Patented Case
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Granted: Mar 31, 1998
Filed: Mar 12, 1996
Inventors
Ran-Fun Chiu
Ning Bi
Assignee (at issue)
Hewlett-Packard Company, L.P.
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