Patent ID: 7113536
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating in an ad hoc polling based communication infrastructure, the method comprising steps of: participating by a Participant in Multiple Piconets (PMP) node in a first piconet to exchange data with a first node within a first payload window associated with a first rendezvous point; defining a second payload window associated with a second rendezvous point for the PMP node; switching the PMP node to a second piconet to exchange data with a second node within the second payload window; and determining by the first node, in response to the PMP node missing the second rendezvous point, said PMP node switching to the second piconet wherein: the first rendezvous point is defined based on information specific to the PMP node, rather than being associated with a link between the PMP node and the first node; and the second rendezvous point is defined based on information specific to the PMP node, rather than being associated with a link between the PMP node and the second node.