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Access method for broadband and narrowband networks

  • US 5,751,708 A
  • Filed: 10/25/1995
  • Issued: 05/12/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for an end-user device to request access to a communications network, said method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving at an empty buffer of said end-user device at least one information packet;

    transmitting from said end-user device to a scheduler of said communication network a stand-alone data symbol to request permission to transmit said at least one information packet; and

    in response to said end-user device receiving permission from said scheduler to transmit said at least one information packet, including a piggybacked data symbol in said at least one information packet being transmitted, said piggybacked data symbol communicating to said scheduler a request to transmit one or more information packets remaining in said buffer of said end-user device.

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