Patent ID: 7613141

Claim:
A Bluetooth broadcasting method, comprising the steps of: (a) at a master, generating a broadcast packet to include assignment information and header information and transmitting the broadcast packet, wherein the assignment information includes information about assigning a slave that is available to transmit data at a next odd slot number when a slot of the broadcast packet is not included in an access window for transmitting, and the header information are included in packet headers comprising FLOW, ARQN and SEQN and the header information contains information about maintaining ACL link between the master and the slave; (b) at the master, generating a broadcast packet by including notification information and transmitting the broadcast packet, wherein the notification information contains information to indicate whether no slave is available to transmit data at next odd slot number in response to a slot of the broadcast packet being included in an access window for transmitting, the assignment information is stored behind a CRC bit, wherein the assignment information stored behind the CRC bit is set to an active member address of the slot of the broadcast packet; and (c) at the slave, receiving the broadcast packets, obtaining the assigning information, header information or notification information included in the broadcast packet and determining whether or not the slave transmits data.