Patent ID: 7925285

Claim:
A method for distributing timing information amongst a plurality of Bluetooth master devices, comprising: transmitting a global clock to each master device of the plurality of master devices, wherein each master device comprises a Bluetooth master device and is a master of a respective piconet, wherein each master device of the plurality of master devices operates according to a respective and unique local clock that is independent of the global clock, wherein a slave device communicates with a first master device of the plurality of master devices by synchronizing with the respective local clock of the first master device, and wherein the slave device comprises a Bluetooth slave device; determining, in each master device, a respective offset between the global clock and the respective local clock, wherein the respective offsets are different from each other; and transmitting the respective offset of the first master device of the plurality of master devices to a second master device of the plurality of master devices to facilitate a handoff of the slave device from the first master device to the second master device.