Patent ID: 7159042

Claim:
A method of communicating between communication stations adapted to communicate with each other when at least one of the communication stations supplies a synchronisation signal, the station then functioning in base station mode and the stations not supplying a synchronisation signal but synchronising on a synchronisation signal sent by a station functioning in base station mode then functioning in mobile station mode, wherein the method includes: a first operation of receiving a message, during which a mobile station synchronised with a first base station receives a message coming from the first base station, an operation of detachment and attachment, during which the mobile station synchronises with a second base station, without the two base stations synchronising with each other, and a second transmission operation, during which the mobile station transmits the message to the second base station, and wherein the message represents traffic between the mobile stations synchronised on the first base station and the first base station, and wherein the message destination station is the second base station, and the second base station performs, on receipt of the message, an operation of determining the total traffic during which it determines whether or not the sum: of the traffic between the mobile stations synchronised on the first base station and the first base station, on the one hand, and the traffic between the mobile stations synchronised on the second base station and the second base station, on the other hand, is less than a predetermined value.