Patent ID: 7346016

Claim:
A method of transmitting signals to a controllable destination node associated with a device, the destination node being linked to at least two nodes via a communication bus, the method comprising: a) transmitting a signal from a controller using a radio frequency transmission; b) receiving the transmission signal by the at least two nodes having respective radio frequency receiving configurations; c) detecting at least a part of the transmission signal that indicates the destination node; d) selecting a timeslot for each of the at least two nodes for performing a retransmission of at least a part of the transmission signal by each of the at least two nodes; and e) performing the retransmission of at least a part of the transmission signal to the destination node via the communication bus by only the node for which an earliest occurring timeslot has been selected, wherein when a node, for which a later occurring timeslot has been selected, detects the reception of the retransmission signal, the later timeslot node aborts a retransmission of the signal therefrom.