Patent ID: 8483112

Claim:
A wireless networking method, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of different sets of wireless links; providing a plurality of wireless nodes, the nodes being in mutual bi-directional wireless communication via the wireless links, each of the links enabling the communication between a respective pair of the nodes; transmitting information to a selected one of the nodes from each of other ones of the nodes via a first of the sets of the wireless links, the transmitting step including: transmitting a first signal from one of the child nodes to one of the parent nodes, the first signal including first information; and transmitting a second signal from the one parent node to the selected one of the nodes and to the one child node, the second signal including the first information; repeating, via cyclical use of each of other ones of the sets of the wireless links, respectively, the step of transmitting information to the selected one of the nodes from each of other ones of the nodes, the other ones of the nodes including parent nodes and child nodes; and selecting the different sets of wireless links such that each of the parent nodes receives an approximately equal number of the transmissions of the information from the child nodes.