Patent ID: 8228874

Claim:
A wireless network comprising: a current coordinator and at least one device which is currently associated with the wireless network; and a device selected as a new coordinator among the at least one device by the current coordinator, wherein the current coordinator is configured to: transmit a handover request message to the new coordinator; receive a handover response message in response to the handover request message from the new coordinator, the handover response message comprising a reason code field that is set to “success”; and broadcast one or more beacons, each of the one or more beacons comprising identification information which identifies the new coordinator and number information which indicates a number of remaining beacons that the current coordinator will broadcast before a handover occurs, wherein the number information included in a last beacon among the one or more beacons is set to “0,” and wherein the new coordinator is configured to broadcast a beacon after receiving the last beacon from the current coordinator.