Patent ID: 8629782

Claim:
A method for using dual telemetry for communicating with a tool associated with a drill string, the method comprising the steps of: connecting a wired drill pipe telemetry system and a mud pulse telemetry system to the tool the wired drill pipe telemetry system associated with at least a portion of the drill string, wherein the wired drill pipe is configured to transmit first data requests to the tool and further wherein the tool is configured to transmit first data corresponding to the first data requests to the wired drill pipe, wherein the wired drill pipe telemetry system has a plurality of wired drill pipe joints connected to each other that transmit the first data; the mud pulse telemetry system being configured to transmit second data requests to the tool and having a module configured to access the first data transmitted from the tool to the wired drill pipe telemetry system to obtain a portion of the first data, wherein the module uses drilling fluid traveling through the drill string to transmit the portion of the first data; wherein the wired drill pipe telemetry system and the mud pulse telemetry system have a master/slave relationship with the wired drill pipe telemetry system being configured as a master and the mud pulse telemetry system being configured as a slave; transmitting at least one of the first data requests from the wired drill pipe telemetry system to the tool wherein the mud pulse telemetry system does not transmit the second data requests if the wired drill pipe telemetry system is transmitting the first data requests; and transmitting data corresponding to the first data requests from the tool to the wired drill pipe telemetry system.