Patent ID: 8509688

Claim:
A device for use in a body area network capable of low power communications, the device comprising: a controller configured to form a first piconet capable of coexisting with a second piconet, the controller further configured to couple to at least one secondary device, the device and a secondary device coupled in the first piconet; and a transmitter configured to communicate with the secondary device via a wireless communication channel, wherein the controller is configured to receive, from the second piconet, information regarding a third piconet that the first piconet controller is unable to detect, and to select communication channel resources based at least in part on resources allocated to the second piconet and the information regarding the third piconet, and wherein the controller is configured to form the first piconet to operate in at least one of: a non-interference mode when the controller is able to establish communications with a second controller in the second piconet, and an interference mitigation mode when the controller is unable to establish communications with the second controller in the second piconet.