Patent ID: 8605749
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A frame-merging method adapted for a network, the network including a plurality of mesh units and a plurality of terminal units, in which any two units capable of communicating with each other form a communication pair, and one of the units operates as a key unit to transmit a plurality of pending frames according to said frame-merging method, said frame-merging method comprising: (A) determining whether the key unit is a mesh unit or a terminal unit; (B) for the communication pair recorded in each pending frame, selecting a suitable scheme from a plurality of frame-merging schemes, and extracting at least one of the pending frames from among the pending frames for use as part or all of a priority frame set; and (C) comparing a total size of all frames included in the priority frame set with a suitable frame size, so as to determine whether the key unit is to send an aggregated frame.