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Patent USRE43020 - Method of addressing messages, method of establishing wireless ... - Google Patents
A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to establish communications without collision between the interrogator and individual ones of the multiple wireless...http://www.google.com/patents/USRE43020?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent USRE43020 - Method of addressing messages, method of establishing wireless communications, and communications system
Publication number USRE43020 E1
Application number US 11/865,580
Also published as US6072801, US6226300, US6307848, US20010043569, USRE42344, USRE43445, USRE44411
Publication number 11865580, 865580, US RE43020 E1, US RE43020E1, US-E1-RE43020, USRE43020 E1, USRE43020E1
Patent Citations (118), Non-Patent Citations (114), Referenced by (1), Classifications (24), Legal Events (2)
US RE43020 E1
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U.S. Classification 370/329, 370/342, 370/437, 370/278, 340/10.2, 340/539.13, 370/282, 370/430, 370/462, 340/10.1
Cooperative Classification G06K7/0008, H04W4/06, H04W8/26, H04W74/04, G06K7/10049, H04W8/005, H04L12/44, H04W76/02
European Classification G06K7/00E, H04L12/44, H04W74/04, G06K7/10A1A1A