Patent ID: 8228847

Claim:
A method for transmitting a message in a radio-operated communication network having a base unit and a plurality of nodes, wherein the base unit and the nodes each has a transmitter and a receiver, the method which comprises: activating the receiver at cyclical switch-on times for a specific receiving time period in each case; transmitting a message to be sent from a node to the base unit by the node to at least one adjacent node as a function of at least one rule; in accordance with the at least one rule, transmitting the message from the at least one adjacent node in a direction of the base unit to at least one respectively adjacent node; in accordance with the at least one rule, transmitting the message in each case from the at least one respectively adjacent node having received the message in the direction of the base unit to at least one of its respectively adjacent nodes; and transmitting the message at least to the base unit from at least one node that is adjacent to the base unit.