Patent ID: 9548869
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for multicasting data in a personal area network, the method comprising: advertising, by a wireless device, multicasting capabilities in the personal area network; receiving, by the wireless device, a request for information about the multicasting capabilities; transmitting, by the wireless device, a response to the request, the response comprising information about the multicasting capabilities including at least a channel map and a time interval, the channel map indicating a channel hopping sequence of multicasting channels on which a corresponding sequence of multicast data packets will be sent by the wireless device, and the time interval indicating an amount of time between transmission of each of the data packets in the sequence corresponding to particular channel by the wireless device; transmitting, by the wireless device, the first corresponding multicast packet of the sequence of data packets according to a no-acknowledgement protocol over a first channel of the channel hopping sequence of multicasting channels according to the channel map and the time interval; and transmitting, by the wireless device, the second corresponding multicast packet of the sequence of data packets, after transmitting the first multicast packet, according to a no-acknowledgment protocol over a second channel of the channel hopping sequence of multicasting channels, according to the channel map and the time interval, the second channel being different from the first channel.