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A system and method for improving network performance through inter frame spacing adaptation

EP 0878072 B1 · Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

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  • Filed July 2, 1996 and granted February 15, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 2, 2016.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by January 2, 2022.
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FiledJuly 2, 1996
PublishedNovember 18, 1998
GrantedFebruary 15, 2006
Term endedJuly 2, 2016
Application numberEP 96923655
Classification (CPC)H04L47/10 +2 more

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