Patent ID: 9706573
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of routing data of a message broadcast by a first device and received by at least a second device during a first time window, the first and second devices forming respective nodes of a network of a plurality of nodes suitable for communicating over a wireless communications channel, the method comprising the following steps performed by the second device: selecting one time slot from a set of predefined time slots of a second time window consecutive with said first time window, wherein: determining whether the received message is being broadcast by another second device by monitoring said channel between the end of said first time window and said selected time slot in order to detect the presence or the absence of a signal on said channel, the presence of a signal being indicative of the broadcasting of the message by the other second device; broadcasting said data from an instant of said selected time slot in the event of detecting the absence of a signal; and not broadcasting in the event of detecting the presence of a signal.