System and method for managing communication links
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorChristopher Alan Chambers
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Abstract
A system and method for managing a communication link between a consumer electronic device adapted for two-way, wireless communications with at least one peripheral. The communication link is managed using a controller that is associated with the consumer electronic device that functions to assign communication slots to the peripheral to facilitate communications between the peripheral and the consumer electronic device.
Claims10
A method for facilitating communications between a time slot controller and a peripheral device via use of a wireless communications link system comprised of a plurality of communications time slots, comprising:
- receiving from the peripheral device at the time slot controller a data communication in at least one of the plurality of communications time slots, the data communication received from the peripheral device including a unique tag number that was assigned to the peripheral device for use in an individual communications session with the time slot controller;
- determining at the time slot controller if the unique tag number that was included with the data communication received from the peripheral device remains valid;
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- when the time slot controller determines that the unique tag number that was included with the data communication received from the peripheral device no longer remains valid, causing the time slot controller to send to the peripheral device a communication for causing the peripheral device to stop transmitting data communications to the time slot controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.