LG Electronics Granted Patent for Data Transmission Method in Multicast Services

LG Electronics has been assigned a patent developed by Tae Hee Ahn and Yang gi Kim for a data transmission method using the number of stations joined in multicast service. The patent provides a wireless communication base station that determines data transmission priority based on the number of terminals requesting services. This invention enables efficient data transmission in wireless communication networks.

Key Takeaways:

• The patent (7,944,835) is a result of a collaborative effort between Tae Hee Ahn and Yang gi Kim from LG Electronics and Seoul, South Korea.
• The invention provides a wireless communication base station that stores terminal information, including the number of terminals joined in multicast service.
• The base station has a priority determining unit that sets a user priority of a data frame to be transmitted using terminal information.
• The data transmission priority is determined in consideration of the number of serviced terminals, allowing for efficient data transmission.
• The patent application was filed on July 30, 2007, under number 11/830,371.
• The base station is used in a network where a multicast service is received from a network entity and is provided to at least one or more terminals in contention-based channel access mode of a wireless communication network.

Statistics:

• Patent number: 7,944,835
• Patent filing date: July 30, 2007 (11/830,371)
• Patent publication date: May 20 (no specific year mentioned)
• Number of terminals joined in multicast service: not specified

Sources:

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,944,835&OS=7,944,835&RS=7,944,835)