Patent ID: 11956648
Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method of joining a second network being a personal area network with a coordinator node for a network node, the method comprising:
entering a second state from a first state once the network node has joined a first network, the first network being other than the second network and being a personal area network with a coordinator node;
entering a third state from the second state once the network node has received a message from the first network to leave the first network, the third state being different from the first and the second states and the third state being a state in which the network node is unresponsive with respect to the first network other than receipt of a dedicated message to join the second network and does not send join requests; and
entering the first state from the third state upon determining by the network node a predetermined trigger condition is met.