Patent ID: 8902771

Claim:
A method of operating a first communications device, comprising: transmitting a transmission request; monitoring to receive transmission request responses during a monitoring period; determining if a response to the transmission request from the first communications device was received by the first communications device; determining whether a response to a transmission request from a second communications device was received by the first communications device, wherein the response to the transmission request from the second communications device was transmitted by a third communications device; and when it is determined that the response to the transmission request from the first communications device was received and it is also determined that the response to the transmission request from the second communications device was received, making a decision whether or not to transmit as a function of the received power of the response to the transmission request from the second communications device and based on whether the received power of the response to the transmit request from the second communications device is greater than a threshold power level, wherein the first communications device and the second communications device each comprise a different peer to peer wireless terminal.