| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080305817 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF MAINTAINING COMMUNICATION PERFORMED BETWEEN MASTER STATION AND SLAVE STATION BELONGING TO SUCH MASTER STATION EVEN WHEN INTERFERENCE SIGNAL IS DETECTED - A radio communication system includes one master station which performs transmission without being controlled by another radio station and which is configured to independently set a channel for use in a radio communication, and at least one slave station which belongs to the one master station and whose radio communication channel used and transmission/reception operations are controlled by the master station. When detecting an interference signal which disturbs the radio communication during operation, the one master station or the at least one slave station sets a first modulation scheme applied to the radio communication to the same second modulation scheme as a modulation scheme used in broadcast in order to convey information necessary for an evasive action to move to another radio communication channel. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090092110 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING VARIABLE TRANSMISSION RATE - A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmission section and a control section. The transmission section transmits data using wireless communication. The control section controls a transmission rate for the transmission section. The control section limits data size of data to be transmitted to at most a prescribed value and requests a transmission acknowledgement, during a period from immediately after a change in the transmission rate until number of times that the transmission section transmits data reaches a prescribed number of times. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090116400 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD ENABLING SWITCHING OF COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmission and reception unit, a monitoring unit, and a control unit. The transmission and reception unit transmits and receives a frame to and from a wireless communication terminal. The monitoring unit monitors an interference signal in a first communication channel. The control unit selects a second communication channel and a third communication channel. The second and the third communication channels are different from the first communication channel. The transmission and reception unit transmits an instruction frame to the wireless communication terminal when the monitoring unit detects the interference signal in the first communication channel. The instruction frame includes information on the second and third communication channels and instructs the wireless communication terminal to switch the communication channel from the first communication channel to at least one of the second and third communication channels. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090116416 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus includes a received frame analysis unit, a received frame bitmap information storage unit, a bitmap reset determination unit, a Block Ack frame generation unit, and a TID bitmap storage unit. The received frame analysis unit analyzes a received MAC frame. The received frame bitmap information storage unit stores delivery acknowledgement of the received MAC frame. The bitmap reset determination unit determines whether or not information stored in the received frame bitmap information storage unit should be reset or not. The Block Ack frame generation unit generates a Block Ack frame including a bitmap to be stored in the received frame bitmap information storage unit on the basis of the delivery acknowledgement request analyzed by the received frame analysis unit. The TID bitmap storage unit stores an identifier of a frame allowing the received frame bitmap information storage unit to store the delivery acknowledgement. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090232053 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS HAVING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FUNCTION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit, an information management unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives data including a plurality of data frames. The data frames are transmitted from an identical data source and managed by an identical traffic identifier. The information management unit retains acknowledgement information to perform an acknowledgement. The information management unit discards an already-retaining acknowledgement information when the data is newly received. The transmission unit performs the acknowledgement to the data source of the data using the acknowledgement information. The transmission unit performs the acknowledgement to the data corresponding to the acknowledgement information irrespective of a request of the acknowledgement from the data source when the information management unit discards the acknowledgement information or when a prediction on the discard of the acknowledgement information is made. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090245125 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION WHEN RECEIVING A FRAME HAVING A LOW RECEPTION SUCCESS POSSIBILITY - A header analysis unit reads a parameter showing a format of a digital signal contained in a received signal. A received signal quality measurement unit measures a quality of the received signal. An awake/sleep control unit controls restart and sleep of a reception unit based on data from the header analysis unit and the received signal quality measurement unit. The awake/sleep control unit stops a reception operation for a period corresponding to a frame length when the quality of the leading portion of the received signal is less than a predetermined threshold. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100020711 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE COMPRISING A CARRIER SENSE FUNCTION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device of an example of the present invention comprises a first unit determining that whether a state is a first state indicating that a transmission medium is in use, a second state indicating that the transmission medium is not in use, or a third state indicating that whether or not the transmission medium is in use is being determined, and a second unit prohibiting a data transmission in the first and third states, and permitting the data transmission in the second state. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100034182 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - When a wireless communication apparatus transmits a data frame requesting an ACK frame, it is expected that a receiver station will transmit the ACK frame. A preamble analyzer analyzes whether or not a preamble pattern added to the header of a received frame exists from the time it is expected that the ACK frame will be received. When a desired preamble pattern is detected, the preamble analyzer supplies instructions to start an operation of demodulating a reception signal to a demodulator via a controller. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100085950 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device includes a physical layer protocol processor which can transmit and receive data by first to Nth communication schemes, where ith communication scheme has compatibility with the first to (i−1)th communication scheme. A first controller generates a first frame for forbidding communication by the first to Nth communication schemes for a first period, and orders the physical layer protocol processor to transmit the first frame by the first communication scheme. A second controller generates a second frame for lifting the forbiddance on communication, and orders the physical layer protocol processor to transmit the second frame by a jth communication scheme. A third controller generates a third frame for forbidding communication by a (j+1)th to Nth communication schemes for a second period, and orders the physical layer protocol processor to transmit the third frame by the (j+1)th communication scheme. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100329231 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH PHYSICAL LAYER PROCESSING MODULE AND MAC LAYER PROCESSING MODULE AND ITS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus includes a first module, a second module, an inhibit module, a calculation module, and a control module. The first module constitutes a first system. The first system transmits and receives first data to and from a first device. The second module constitutes a second system. The second system transmits and receives second data to and from a second device in each interval time-divided with determined transmission timing. The inhibit module generates inhibit periods for preventing the first module from communicating by use of the first data. The calculation module calculates an occupation time required for the transmission and reception of the first data. The control module compares the period between the inhibit periods adjacent to one another with the occupation time and, according to the comparison result, instructs the first device to stop or delay the transmission of the first data. | 12-30-2010 |