Beacon group merging

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2005-11-08

2011-11-01

Pan, Yuwen (Department: 2618)

Telecommunications

Radiotelephone system

Out-of-range indication

C455S500000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08050669

ABSTRACT:
A method of merging two or more beacon groups (BGs), each BG comprising one or more wireless devices, the method comprising, determining a leader BG based on merging information broadcast by two or more devices of different BGs, said devices being within radio range of each other; and merging the two or more BGs into the leader BG; wherein the merging information of each device comprises an extension indication, the extension indication being positive if another device of a same BG as said each device is out of radio range of said each device, and negative otherwise.

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