Patent ID: 7349420

Claim:
A method of conducting communications between a master transceiver and one of a plurality of destination slave transceivers using a digital communication link comprising the steps of: (a) at said master transceiver, transmitting toward a destination slave transceiver an information packet having a slave transceiver address field and a slave transceiver identification field, said slave transceiver address field containing a slave transceiver address code representative of the physical location of said destination slave transceiver relative to the physical location of said master transceiver, and said slave transceiver identification field containing a slave transceiver identification code representative of a logical address of said destination slave transceiver; (b) at a respective slave transceiver between said master transceiver and said destination slave transceiver, receiving said information packet, modifying the value of said slave transceiver address field of said information packet to produce a modified information packet, and transmitting said modified information packet toward said destination slave transceiver; and (c) at said destination slave transceiver, capturing said modified information packet, in response to contents of the the slave transceiver identification field of said modified packet matching a slave transceiver identification code representative of a logical address of said destination slave transceiver, or in response to said slave transceiver address field of said information packet having a prescribed value.