Patent ID: 6108344
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
Method for sharing a transmission medium between communication apparatuses having an identifier, each adapted on the one hand to transmit messages by means of the transmission medium, in the course of so-called ""transmission"" phases, and/or on the other hand to receive messages by means of the transmission medium, in the course of so-called ""reception"" phases, wherein each communication apparatus:in each reception phase, stores, associated with identifiers, activity states representing the last messages transmitted by the communication apparatuses possessing these identifiers, in their own transmission phases; andin a so-called ""transmission preparation"" phase preceding each transmission phase, determines at what moment the communication apparatus which performed the reception phase can transmit a message on the transmission medium according to first predetermined rules taking account of at least one of the activity states it stored during the reception phase, the moment varying with the set of activity states stored during the reception phase.