Patent ID: 7200130
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of configuring a short range RF network, the network comprising at least one host node and at least two wireless transceiver nodes, each transceiver node having a controller, a data store, and at least one transceiver for communicating wirelessly with other host and transceiver nodes, each transceiver having a unique identifier, the method comprising the steps of: (a) assigning a predetermined value to a variable n and associating the at least one host with a value of n; (b) paging all other nodes from the node associated with the value of n; (c) noting nodes which reply to paging and associating them with a value of (n+1); (d) making all nodes associated with the value of n or with lower values unresponsive to paging; (e) incrementing the value of n; and (f) repeating steps (b) through (e) until no nodes reply to paging;