Patent ID: 9648662
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A communication device comprising: a master transceiver circuitry configured to operate as a master device in a first network operating according to Bluetooth communication protocol and to connect simultaneously to a plurality of slave devices of the first network; a slave transceiver circuitry configured to operate as a slave device in a second network operating according to the Bluetooth communication protocol, the second network different from the first network, and to connect to a master device of the second network; an internal connection between the master transceiver circuitry and the slave transceiver circuitry to transfer data between the master transceiver circuitry and the slave transceiver circuitry; and a processor configured to control routing of data packets in the communication device, to analyze, from a destination address field, a destination of a data packet received through any one of the master transceiver circuitry and the slave transceiver circuitry and to forward the data packet to the internal connection for further transmission, without extracting data of the data packet, if the destination address field does not include an address of the communication device or another Bluetooth communication device in a same network as the transceiver circuitry that received the data packet and to cause extraction of the data of the data packet in the communication device, if the address of the communication device was included in the destination address field of the data packet, wherein said processor is further arranged to configure the master transceiver circuitry to employ a frequency hopping pattern that is different from a frequency hopping pattern employed by the second transceiver circuitry in connection establishment so as to reduce a search time needed to establish the connection.