Patent ID: 8451815

Claim:
Method for a first coordinator operating at a first channel frequency in a wireless personal area network (WPAN), the WPAN further comprising a second coordinator operating a second channel frequency, the method comprising the steps of: initiating a communication from the first coordinator to locate said second coordinator in said WPAN by scanning a plurality of channel frequencies including the second channel frequency, transmitting a first message from the first coordinator to the located second coordinator on the second channel frequency, informing the second coordinator that the first coordinator is operating at the first channel frequency, receiving a response message from the second coordinator on the second channel frequency acknowledge the first message transmitted from the first coordinator, transmitting a second message from the first coordinator to the second coordinator on the second channel frequency requesting that the second coordinator change from the second channel frequency to the first channel frequency, communication between the first coordinator and the second coordinator using the first channel frequency of the first coordinator, and wherein at least one of the first and second messages is a packet type message comprising a header holding information regarding the channel frequency of the first coordinator.