Patent ID: 7450610

Claim:
An apparatus for allocating channel time to an application on a wireless personal area network (PAN), comprising: a duration adjusting module for adjusting a first duration of a superframe so that the first duration becomes substantially equivalent to a multiple of a second duration of a frame of an upper layer of a device; a channel time dividing module for comparing an allowable size of a maximum channel time allocation (CTA) in the frame of the upper layer of the device with a size of an isochronous CTA of another device and dividing the isochronous CTA into a plurality of CTAs, according to the size of the isochronous CTA of the other device; and a channel time relocating module for comparing a second super-rate of a second CTA previously located in the superframe with a first super-rate of a first CTA, of the plurality of the CTAs, to be newly added and relocating the first CTA.