Patent ID: 7158786

Claim:
A registration communication system for a radio bus system comprising: a single hub station and a plurality of terminals, wherein transmission and reception between said hub station and said terminal are conducted by radio, and wherein said hub station and each of said terminals comprise: a mode switching means for switching between two modes, namely a registration mode that is used for transmitting or receiving registration data, and a normal mode that is used for transmitting or receiving general data other than said registration data; a transmission means for transmitting data after performing a predetermined data processing corresponding to the mode switched to; and a reception means for performing a predetermined restoration process on received data corresponding to the mode switched to, wherein restoration of the received data is enabled only when the mode on a transmitting end and that on a receiving end correspond with each other; said registration communication system being characterized in that, when a terminal performs a procedure for registration in the radio bus system: said terminal and said hub station are put in the registration mode; said hub station transmits a notification of completion of registration mode change to said terminal in said registration mode; said terminal, having received said notification of completion of registration mode change, transmits terminal registration information to said hub station in the registration mode; said hub station, having received the terminal registration information, performs a registration procedure based on the terminal registration information; said hub station transmits a notification of completion of a registration procedure to said terminal in said registration mode; said terminal, having received said notification of completion of said registration procedure, is placed in said normal mode after transmitting recognition data to said hub station in said registration mode; and said hub station, having received said recognition data, is placed in said normal mode.