Patent ID: 8457088

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: piconet logic configured to establish a multi-level piconet hierarchy, the multi-level piconet hierarchy comprising a top level piconet and one or more lower level piconets, wherein the top level piconet includes the apparatus and one or more master controllers, the apparatus being configured as a master device in the top level piconet, and the one or more master controllers being configured as slave devices in the top level piconet, and wherein a lower level piconet includes a master controller and one or more sub-controllers, the master controller being configured as a master in the lower level piconet, and the one or more sub-controllers being configured as slave devices in the lower level piconet; time division multiplexing logic configured to solicit and control aggregated communication with the one or more master controllers in the top-level piconet, wherein the aggregated communication comprises an aggregation of (i) data from the master controller in the piconet and (ii) data from one or more sub-controllers in the piconet; and de-aggregation logic configured to receive the aggregated communication and separate the data associated with the master controller in the piconet from the data associated with the one or more sub-controllers in the piconet.