Patent ID: 7840183
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A short-range wireless communication device that receives or transmits beacons in a beacon period, allocates a communication-occupied interval in a super-frame between two adjacent beacon periods, and carries out a communication in the communication-occupied interval in conformity with a predetermined protocol, said short-range wireless communication device comprising: a control unit that dynamically sets and changes a communication rate in the communication-occupied interval and a number of slots constituting the communication-occupied interval, wherein: the super-frame includes a plurality of communication time slots, the communication-occupied time interval has one or more communication time slots from among the plurality of communication time slots, and said control unit dynamically changes the communication rate by dynamically changing the communication rate per communication time slot of the one or more communication time slots of the communication-occupied time interval.