Patent ID: 7626966

Claim:
A handheld, mobile communication device adapted to operably couple to a plurality of mobile nodes in an ad hoc network, the device comprising: a link management module for establishing a wireless communication link with at least one of the plurality of mobile nodes; wherein the link management module is adapted to: receive at least one message from the plurality of nodes, each message associated with a plurality of periodic transmission slots; identify one or more of the transmission slots of a plurality of transmission slots that are available for transmitting to at least one node of the plurality of mobile nodes; and broadcast a slot reservation request to reserve one or more of the plurality of available transmission slots; and a call management module adapted to: transmit, during the one or more reserved slot, a first set of one or more units of voice data generated at the communication device; and relay, during the one or more reserved slot, a second set of one or more units of voice data received from one of the plurality of mobile nodes.