Patent ID: 6775258
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
In a multinode, ad hoc, wireless communication system having at least a data source node and a data destination node, and the communication system selectably and dynamically formed of a first piconet at which the data source node is positioned and a second piconet at which a data destination node is positioned, each of the first and at least second piconets having a master node and at least one slave node, the at least one slave node capable of communication of the packets of data only to an associated master node, the data source node forming a selected one of a slave node and a master node of the first piconet and the data destination node a selected one of a slave node and a master node of the second piconet, an improvement of apparatus for facilitating routing of packets of data between the data source node and the data destination node by way of a communication path, the communication path having at least one node, inclusive of the data destination node, said apparatus comprising:at least one first routing table embodied at each of the at least one node of the communication path and having an incoming data ledger and an outgoing data ledger, said first routing table for facilitating mapping an incoming data packet to an outgoing data packet, said first routing table populated with values extracted from header information of the packets, the packets routed in a first manner using values of the at least one first routing table when the node at which said at least one first routing table is embodied forms a slave node and the packets routed in a second manner using values of the at least one first routing table when the node at which said at least one first routing table is embodied forms a master node.