The master controls all the traffic in a piconet. Bluetooth radios in a piconet frequency-hop together. Each piconet can have up to seven simultaneous or more than 200 active slaves. Standby is a radio waiting to join a piconet. Inquire is a radio seeking other radios to connect.
Page is a master radio asking to connect to a specific radio.
Connect is a radio active on a piconet as a master, slave or simultaneous. The master gives all the slaves in a piconet its clock-device ID and sets the unique hopping sequence based on the master's device address. Scatternets occur when multiple masters exist in range of each other. A master radio may also be a slave radio on another piconet. Each piconet is hopping with a different sequence sharing the same 2.4-GHz band.