Patent ID: 7746820

Claim:
A response system, comprising: a plurality of base units; a plurality of response units, wherein each of said response units receives a user input selection and transmits that user input selection to at least one of said base units utilizing wireless communication, wherein said response units transmit user input selections during a response interval; wherein said at least one of said base units transmits a standard polling packet to said response units during a polling interval utilizing a standard protocol in order to retrieve user input selections from response units joined with that base unit and wherein said at least one of said base units transmits a joining packet to said response units utilizing a join protocol in order to join response units with that base unit to allow said response units to transmit user input selections to that base unit by changing personality data of response units, the personality data determining which of said base units that particular one of said response units communicate, and wherein said at least one of said base units transmits joining packets for a plurality of said response units to be joined with said one of said base units during a joining interval in order to join the plurality of response units with said one of said base units during the joining interval, said joining interval being intermingled with the response interval and the polling interval.