Patent ID: 9572155
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A time slot controller, comprising: a processing device; and a non-transitory, computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions executable by the processing device, the instructions facilitating communications between the time slot controller and a peripheral device via use of a wireless communications link system comprised of a plurality of communications time slots; wherein the instructions cause the time slot controller to assign to the peripheral device a unique tag number for subsequent use by the peripheral device in connection with an individual communications session with the time slot controller via use of at least one of the plurality of time slots whereupon, in response to receiving a data communication from the peripheral device in the at least one of the plurality of time slots, the instructions further cause the time slot controller to automatically determine if the unique tag number included with the data communication has been made invalid and, when the unique tag number included with the data communication has been made invalid, to automatically send to the peripheral device a communication for causing the peripheral device to stop transmitting data communications to the time slot controller in the at least one of the plurality of time slots.