WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
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Abstract
In order to solve problems arising when a communication system such as a wireless LAN is constructed as a decentralized distributed type network without a relationship of control station and controlled stations such as a master station and slave stations, in a wireless communication system composed of a plurality of communication stations without a relationship of control station and controlled stations, respective communication stations transmit beacons with information concerning a network written thereon with each other to construct the network, and it becomes possible to make sophisticated judgment such as communication states of other communication stations by those beacons.
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174 Claims
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1-155. -155. (canceled)
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156. A communication station that communicates with other communication stations as part of a wireless communication system, said communication station comprising:
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a receiver; a transmitter; and a controller configured to control a receiving operation of said receiver for a predetermined period of time after transmitting a signal from the transmitter, wherein if another signal has not been transmitted from the other communication stations during said predetermined period of time, said controller stops the receiving operation until an occurrence of at least one of a next signal receiving time and a next signal transmitting time. - View Dependent Claims (157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172)
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173. A communication station that communicates with other communication stations as part of a wireless communication system, said communication station comprising:
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a receiver; a transmitter; and means for controlling a receiving operation of said receiver for a predetermined period of time after transmitting a signal from the transmitter, and means for stopping the receiving operation until an occurrence of at lease one of a next signal receiving time and a next signal transmitting time if another signal has not been transmitted from the other communication stations during said predetermined period of time.
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174. A method executed in a communication station that communicates with other communication stations as part of a wireless communication system, said method comprising:
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receiving wireless signals with a receiver; transmitting wireless signals with a transmitter; and controlling with a controller a receiving operation of said receiver for a predetermined period of time after transmitting a signal from the transmitter, wherein if another signal has not been transmitted from the other communication stations during said predetermined period of time, said controller stops the receiving operation until an occurrence of at least one of a next signal receiving time and a next signal transmitting time.
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