Patent ID: 6754176
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A method comprising sharing a channel during a contention free period of communication between two or more basic service sets including network components in an overlapping region of a wireless computer network wherein:a first basic service set includes a first point coordinator; a second basic service set includes a second point coordinator not within transmission range of said first point coordinator; a first other network component in said overlapping region is within transmission range of said first point coordinator but not within transmission range of said second point coordinator; a second other network component in said overlapping region is within transmission range of said first other network component and said second point coordinator but not within transmission range of said first point coordinator; said first point coordinator negotiates with said second point coordinator the channel sharing by communicating through said first network component and said second network component acting as proxy point coordinators; and the network components in the overlapping region communicate in contention free periods only.