Patent ID: 8179914
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for efficiently utilizing bandwidth in a wireless network including a server and a plurality of clients, wherein data transmission in the network is organized into frames and wherein at least one time slot is assigned to each client, the method comprising: at one of the plurality of clients, monitoring time slots preceding a time slot assigned to the one of the plurality of clients to determine whether the client assigned to a monitored time slot is transmitting data to the server in a current frame; waiting a predetermined interval from a start of the monitored time slot to ensure that no other of the plurality of clients having an assigned time slot preceding the time slot assigned to the one of the plurality of clients transmits in the monitored time slot of the current frame; and transmitting data from the one of the plurality of clients to the server during the monitored time slot in the current frame responsive to a determination that the client the monitored time slot is not transmitting data to the server in the current frame and after expiration of the predetermined interval without a transmission in the current frame from any other of the plurality of clients having a time slot preceding the time slot assigned to the one of the plurality of clients.