Communication system having wireless devices supporting ad hoc connections independent of the protocol version
First Claim
1. A communication system for providing at least one network and comprising wireless devices which operate on certain radio frequencies, at least one of said wireless devices including a transceiver having a receiver portion which simultaneously correlates an access code of an incoming data packet against that associated with plural wireless protocol versions, supported by that wireless device, in a manner to permit a linkup between that wireless device and other ones of said wireless devices including those which support a linkup in accordance with only one of said plural wireless protocol versions.
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Abstract
A wireless device, for use in an ad hoc network and a communication system therefor having ad hoc networks feature one or more such devices having a transceiver including a receiver portion which simultaneously correlates (33, 34 in FIG. 3) an access code of an incoming data packet against that associated with plural wireless protocol versions, supported by that wireless device (BT), in a manner permitting a linkup between that wireless device and any of the other devices, the other devices including ones which are programmed to correlate against any single one of the protocol versions, as well as ones which are programmed to simultaneously correlate against the referred-to plural protocol versions. As an example, the receiver portion employs as many parallel-connected correlators as are the number of wireless protocol versions such wireless device supports simultaneously. There is also featured a method for facilitating an ad hoc connection between different ones of plural wireless transceiver devices which are supported by different protocol versions.
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- 1. A communication system for providing at least one network and comprising wireless devices which operate on certain radio frequencies, at least one of said wireless devices including a transceiver having a receiver portion which simultaneously correlates an access code of an incoming data packet against that associated with plural wireless protocol versions, supported by that wireless device, in a manner to permit a linkup between that wireless device and other ones of said wireless devices including those which support a linkup in accordance with only one of said plural wireless protocol versions.
- 21. A wireless device, for use in an ad hoc network including a plurality of wireless devices, having a transceiver including a receiver portion which simultaneously correlates an access code of an incoming data packet against that associated with plural wireless protocol versions, supported by that wireless device, in a manner to permit a linkup between that wireless device and all other ones of said wireless devices, the said other ones of said wireless devices include ones which are programmed to correlate against only a single one of said protocol versions as well as ones which are programmed to simultaneously correlate against said plural protocol versions.
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35. A method for facilitating, in a communication system, an ad hoc connection between different ones of plural wireless transceiver devices which are supported by different protocol versions, comprising:
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providing at least one wireless transceiver device with a receiver portion to simultaneously correlate an incoming data packet against a plurality of protocol versions, synchronizing the timing of a sampling of the incoming data packet to produce a packet bit stream conforming to the protocol version matched by the correlation; and
based on a matching effected by the correlation, transmitting the packet bit stream via a protocol matching parser to at least one of asynchronous data signal buffer registers and synchronous voice signal buffer registers.
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