Patent ID: 8351369
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: dividing a time period into a plurality of frames; subdividing each of the plurality of frames into a plurality of slots, the plurality of slots providing time segments for data communication between nodes in a mesh network, the plurality of slots including at least one global slot for multicast data communication between nodes in the mesh network, the data communication in any of the plurality of slots by a first node being performed using a same single radio transceiver of the first node, the single radio transceiver of the first node being deactivated when the first node is not communicating on the mesh network; enabling the first node to dynamically assign itself two or more slots of the plurality of slots for data communication, the first node using the two or more slots to receive data communications destined for the first node; and communicating in the global slot to other nodes of the mesh network information indicative of the first node's dynamic assignment of the two or more slots, the first node communicating in the global slot using the same single radio transceiver of the first node.