Patent ID: 7532594

Claim:
A Bluetooth network processing method, comprising: providing a plurality of piconets, each of which comprises a plurality of Bluetooth units, including one master unit and a plurality of slave units, wherein the piconet comprises a master unit, a downstream bridge, and an upstream bridge, linking the piconets using the slave units to form a scatternet ring, wherein the slave units act as a bridge to connect the piconets, wherein the piconet linking step uses a centralized formation mechanism to form the scatternet ring, and the scatternet ring is a closed single-ring Bluetooth network connected by a circle of piconets; and appending a plurality of control bit fields to a packet payload for routing the packet from its source to its destination, wherein the control bit fields comprise a relay bit field, a dirty bit field, a broadcast bit field, a source address field and a destination address field.