Patent ID: 7937088
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A server terminal configured to operate in an ad hoc cluster of terminals, comprising: a user interface configured to transmit and receive communications during a call with a first terminal connected to an ad hoc network backbone of an ad hoc network, the ad hoc network comprising a plurality of clusters, each of the clusters comprising at least two piconets and at least one gateway terminal, each gateway terminal configured to form a communications link between at least two of the plurality of clusters, each of the piconets comprising at least one intra-cluster bridge terminal, a master terminal, and a member terminal slaved to the master terminal, and the intra-cluster bridge terminal being a member of the two piconets and configured to form a communications link between the two piconets; a processor configured to support an inter-cluster call between a second terminal in a first ad hoc cluster and a third terminal in a second ad hoc cluster by establishing a route on the network backbone for each communication packet transmitted from the second terminal to the third terminal, the route selected from a plurality of routes depending on whether the inter-cluster call is a first type of call or a second type of call that is different from the first type of call; and the processor further configured to establish the route by: