Patent ID: 8964622
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An access point N1 for use in a wireless network to be established between N1 and at least three other access points N2, N3 and N4, access point N1 comprising: a data storage memory; a program memory; a circuit operatively coupled to a port; a processor operative coupled to the circuit and the at least one memory; a first set of instructions stored in the program memory that, when executed by the processor, configure N1 to determine whether N3 is actively communicating with N4 and, if so, then determining whether packets are stored in the data storage memory that are to be transmitted by N1 to N2; a second set of instructions stored in the program memory that, when executed by the processor, configure N1 to determine whether N4 is not capable of receiving signals transmitted from N1 and, if so, then determining how many packets can be sent to N2 from N1 with their receipt by N2 acknowledged in the remaining time that N3 is actively communicating with N4 and gathering those packets; a third set of instructions stored in the program memory that are adapted to be executed after the second set of instructions are executed to gather packets, the third set of instructions, when executed by the processor, causing N1 to transmit the gathered packets to N2 at the same time that N3 is actively communicating with N4.