Method for communicating in a network, a system and a primary station therefor
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsXiangyu Wang, Johan Paul Marie Gerard Linnartz, Patrick Van Kooten
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system comprising at least one primary station and at least one secondary station, wherein the primary station comprises communication means for communicating with the secondary station in accordance with a first protocol, wherein the communication means are arranged for communicating with a plurality of further stations in accordance with a further protocol, and wherein the primary station comprises control means for generating a message to be broadcast to the secondary station, said message comprising purposely erroneous information causing the at least one secondary station to remain silent for a predetermined duration.
Claims10
A system comprising
- at least one primary station and
- at least one secondary station,
- wherein the at least one primary station comprises
- communication means for communicating with the at least one secondary station in accordance with a first protocol, wherein the communication means are arranged for communicating with a plurality of further stations in accordance with a further protocol, and wherein the primary station comprises
- control means for generating a message to be broadcast to the secondary station, said message comprising purposely erroneous information, said information comprising an erroneous data length in a header field causing the at least one secondary station to remain silent for a predetermined duration.
A method for communicating in a network comprising at least one primary station and at least one secondary station, wherein the at least one primary station communicates with the secondary station in accordance with a first protocol, wherein the at least one primary station communicates with a plurality of further stations in accordance with a further protocol, and said method comprising
- generating a message to be broadcast to the secondary station, said message comprising purposely erroneous information, said information comprising an erroneous data length in a header field causing the at least one secondary station to remain silent for a predetermined duration.
A primary station for communicating within a network comprising at least one secondary station,
- wherein the primary station comprises
- communication means for communicating with the at least one secondary station in accordance with a first protocol, wherein the communication means are arranged for communicating with a plurality of further stations in accordance with a further protocol, and wherein the primary station comprises
- control means for generating a message to be broadcast to the at least one secondary station, said message comprising purposely erroneous information, said information comprising an erroneous data length in a header field causing the at least one secondary station to remain silent for a predetermined duration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.