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Method and device for communication on a network

  • US 6,574,452 B1
  • Filed: 07/01/1999
  • Issued: 06/03/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of communicating between communication stations adapted to communicate with each other when at least one of said communication stations supplies a control signal, said one of said stations then functioning in a “

  • base station”

    mode, and other stations not supplying a control signal then functioning in a “

    mobile station”

    mode, the method being performed by a first communication station needing to send information, the method comprising the steps of;

    determining the presence of a second communication station functioning in base station mode able to convey said information; and

    in a case where the determining step determines that no second communication station is functioning in base station mode and is capable of conveying said information, performing a switching operation, during which said first communication station switches to function in base station mode.

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