Patent ID: 8149803

Claim:
An apparatus for use in a beacon-enabled wireless network, the apparatus being located within a coverage area of a first equipment, a second equipment being located within a coverage area of the apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a receive/transmission module being configured to receive a beacon of the first equipment, the beacon comprising a time slot parameter for defining a plurality of time slots in a superframe of the beacon-enabled wireless network, the time slots having a sequence order, the first equipment occupying one of the time slots as a parent time slot; and a decision module being electrically connected to the receive/transmission module and, the decision module including a processor, the processor being configured to decide an information of an upload time slot and an information of a download time slot of the apparatus according to the beacon, so that the receive/transmission module can perform data transmission with the first equipment in the upload time slot and perform data transmission with the second equipment by the download time slot, wherein the upload time slot and the download time slot are two different ones of the time slots and the decision module decides the upload time slot to be the time slot that is unoccupied and that is nearest to and ahead of the parent time slot according to the sequence order.