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US 7,013,345 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for wireless networking
AssigneeMetric Systems Corporation
InventorsWilliam M. Brown, Robert S. Bell
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for wireless networking employs a wireless protocol module and a wireless device interface module for controlling a remote terminal unit, whereby the modules integrate the remote terminal unit software and wireless networking application software.
Claims2
A system for establishing wirelessly a wireless infrastructure network to communicate with remote terminal, comprising:
- a protocol conversion module for converting time discrete input information to information formatted for sending to remote terminals in data packets;
- a router module for internally routing said data packets;
- said protocol conversion module for converting the time discrete input information into an Internet Protocol base protocol;
- a wireless protocol module for creating at least one wireless communication link to the remote terminals;
- wherein said wireless protocol module causes each individual remote terminal to periodically exchange a dynamically generated routing table indicative of all of the then available routes to each individual one of the remote terminals within an autonomous wireless communication system;
- wherein said wireless protocol module further causes one remote terminal having a then available route to at least yet another individual one the remote terminals to be established as a primary station;
- wherein said wireless protocol module still further causes all other remote terminals in said autonomous wireless communication system to be identified as secondary stations;
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- wherein said wireless protocol module further causes a point to multi-point link on a single wireless channel to be created between said primary station and only those secondary stations having a then available route to at least another individual one of the secondary stations;
- a wireless device interface module for providing wireless transceiver interfacing;
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- at least one transceiver for responding to said interface module for sending information wirelessly to a remote terminal via the created at least one wireless communication link.
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