Patent ID: 9743402
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a control panel having a first wireless transceiver that operates under an IEEE 802.15.4 or equivalent protocol and a second wireless transceiver that operates under an IEEE 802.11 protocol, wherein the first wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver operate on a single radio frequency channel and the second wireless transceiver provides WiFi access to portable user devices; a beacon processor of the control panel that transmits a beacon through the first wireless transceiver, wherein the beacon defines a repeating superframe having a first time period divided into a first number of time division multiple access slots and a second time period for the WiFi access; a plurality of remotely located wireless devices of the control panel, wherein each of the plurality of remotely located wireless devices includes a respective wireless transceiver and at least one of the plurality of remotely located wireless devices exchanges messages with the control panel within a respective one of the time division multiple access slots of the repeating superframe on the single radio frequency channel; and a scheduling processor within the control panel that schedules use of a single time segment within the second time period for handling both a first data type associated with the first wireless transceiver and a second data type associated with the second wireless transceiver using a polymorphic method based on relative priorities of the first data type and the second data type, wherein the relative priorities of the first data type and the second data type are inverted when an alarm message is sent from the second wireless transceiver.