Patent ID: 8121036

Claim:
A network system for inter-component data communications, the system comprising: a plurality of components for an electronic device, wherein each of the components communicates with at least one other component over a communications medium for a wireless mesh network; and a communications transceiver within each of the components, each of the communications transceivers operable to: determine network traffic load levels for an exchange of communication data between the components; and allocate the network traffic between at least one pair of the components over a plurality of wireless links within the wireless mesh network based on potential-field based measurements at each of the components; wherein each of the communications transceivers share the exchange of the communication data between the components based on a prescribed priority level for allocation of the network traffic; wherein each of the communications transceivers comprise an application framework for inter-component communications using a wireless mesh network, the framework comprising: a physical layer responsive to one or more communication data exchange operations between the components over the communications medium; and a data link layer responsive to one or more operations from the physical layer, the data link layer further comprising a media access control sub-layer configured to: approximate time division multiple access for periods of communication data signal traffic above a predetermined threshold for the network traffic load levels at each of the communications transceivers; and approximate carrier sensing multiple access for periods of communication data signal traffic below the predetermined threshold for the network traffic load levels at each of the communications transceivers.