Patent ID: 7042863
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating within a system including a master unit and one or more slave units, said method comprising the steps of: assigning a member address of a Bluetooth protocol to a first slave unit, said member address corresponding to a selected time slot of a plurality of time slots defined by a system clock, said time slots repeating in cycles; assigning to said first slave unit a first extended address associated with an occurrence of said selected time slot within at least a selected one of said cycles; transmitting information from said first slave unit to said master unit during said occurrence of said selected time slot: assigning to a second slave unit said member address and a second extended address associated with a different occurrence of said selected time slot within one or more of said cycles, said second slave unit being disposed to transmit information during said different occurrence of said selected time slot: and determining whether less than a maximum permitted number of said slave units have been assigned to said member address, said maximum permitted number of slave units being determined by performing a division operation in which a bandwidth associated with said member address is divided by a bandwidth allocated to said first slave unit, said maximum permitted number of slave units being no greater than a quotient of said division operation.