Patent ID: 8149806

Claim:
A method for transmissions in a wireless personal area network (WPAN), the WPAN operating pursuant to standards of a WPAN standardization body, the method comprising: registering one or more transmission flows, wherein a transmission flow comprises a transfer of data from a transmitting device of the WPAN to a receiving device of the WPAN; receiving by a coordinator of the WPAN a bandwidth request for at least one of the one or more transmission flows; scheduling by the coordinator of the WPAN the at least one of the one or more transmission flows to a time slot in a super-frame; receiving by the coordinator of the WPAN an interference report from one or more devices of the WPAN; and generating by the coordinator of the WPAN a transmission schedule for a subsequent super-frame based on the interference report from the one or more devices of the WPAN; wherein the scheduling comprises scheduling by the coordinator of the WPAN a plurality of transmission flows in time slots of the super-frame; the generating comprises generating by the coordinator of the WPAN a transmission schedule for a subsequent super-frame based on the interference report from the one or more devices of the WPAN, wherein the same plurality of transmission flows are scheduled in the subsequent super-frame as in the super-frame, and the order of the transmission flows in the subsequent super-frame is changed from the order of the transmission flows in the super-frame, the change in order to reduce interference.