Patent ID: 9641648
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for requesting data from a set of remote units in a network, the method comprising: defining an Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol, the Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol comprising a schedule of a plurality of time slots, each time slot defined by a distinct start time and end time pair, wherein the schedule does not allocate the time slots to specific remote units and wherein the number of time slots and the duration of the time slots are dynamic and dependent on the performance of the communication network; broadcasting transmitting instructions to the set of remote units on a single radio frequency channel, the transmitting instructions comprising the Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol and selection instructions specifying a procedure to be used by the remote units to select time slots from the Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol to use for data transmission; receiving data, on the single radio frequency channel, the data transmitted from a remote unit in the set of remote units in accordance with the transmitting instructions, wherein the data comprises a request to transmit a long message and wherein the long message comprises a message that takes longer to transmit than the duration of the time slot; in response to receiving the data transmitted from the remote unit, transmitting a polling request directly to the remote unit to request the long message; receiving the long message; and transmitting an acknowledgement message to the remote unit that the long message was received.