Patent ID: 8401001

Claim:
A method of re-establishing a session of a wireless personal area network (WPAN) by a wireless communication device of a wireless local area network (WLAN) comprising: detecting that a master station of an association becomes unavailable, wherein the association includes at least one master station and one or more stations; detecting that one or more other master stations operate on the association; receiving timing synchronization function (TSF) values from each one of the one or more other master stations; comparing the TSF values of each of the one or more other master stations with an internal TSF value; and deciding whether or not to become a new master station according to the comparison result and if it is decided to become the new master station, becoming the new master station by activating a master station application; sending one or more beacons that include a WPAN capabilities information element (IE) to notify the one or more stations of the association about the new master station connectivity parameters wherein the WPAN capabilities information element (IE) includes a service set identifier (SSID) and a session ID; and creating a WPAN session with the one or more stations of the association.