Patent ID: 7937099
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for implementing an adaptive piconet protocol, the method comprises: determining, by a master device, a number of slave devices that are currently affiliated with the master device in a piconet; determining, by the master device, data requirements of each of the slave devices currently affiliated with the master device in the piconet; and establishing, by the master device, an information exchange format based on the number of slave devices and the data requirements of each of the slave devices, wherein the information exchange format includes a single master data request packet within a first time slot and multiple frequency locked partial packets for slave data responses to the single master data request packet within other time slots, each of the frequency locked partial packets corresponding to a portion of one of the other time slots allocated to one of the slave data responses and each of the frequency locked partial packets having the same frequency.