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Patent US7760677 - Method of addressing messages and communications system - Google Patents
In one among many embodiments, the invention provides a system including an interrogator communicating to a selected one or more of a number of communications devices. A plurality of communications devices select random values independently of random values selected by other devices. The interrogator...http://www.google.com/patents/US7760677?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7760677 - Method of addressing messages and communications system
Publication number US7760677 B2
Application number US 11/143,395
Also published as DE69938655D1, EP1072128A1, EP1072128B1, US6275476, US7315522, US7639638, US7672260, US7936706, US8040829, US8488581, US8634338, US8638709, US9014077, US20010014090, US20050207364, US20060056325, US20060209781, US20080007412, US20080042806, US20090322491, US20120265584, US20120271683, US20130073348, US20140236685, WO1999043127A1
Publication number 11143395, 143395, US 7760677 B2, US 7760677B2, US-B2-7760677, US7760677 B2, US7760677B2
Original Assignee Keystone Technology Solutions, Llc
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U.S. Classification 370/312, 340/10.1, 370/445, 370/346, 345/42
International Classification H04H20/00, H04L12/413, H04J3/16, H04L12/56, H04B7/00, G06K7/00
Cooperative Classification H04W8/26, H04L61/2092, G06K7/0008, H04W74/06, H04W40/246, G06K7/10019, H04L29/1232, H04W24/00, H04W74/08, H04W76/021, G06Q20/3223, G06Q20/24, G07B15/00, G06Q20/26
European Classification G06K7/10A1, H04L29/12A3I, H04L61/20I, H04W74/06, G06K7/00E, H04W76/02A