Dynamic network fusion in wireless ad-hoc networks
First Claim
1. A network comprising at least two sub-networks, each having at least one slave terminal or device and a master terminal or device connected thereto that is arranged to instruct at least one slave terminal or device in the given sub-network to exchange sub-network information with other sub-networks, wherein an inquiring or responding state is provided for a slave terminal or device that has been instructed to exchange information, the master terminal or device of a responding slave terminal or device being arranged to dissolve its sub-network, and the master terminal or device of an inquiring slave terminal being arranged to merge the terminals or devices of the dissolved sub-network into its own sub-network.
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Abstract
The invention relates to networks having at least one slave terminal or device, and a master terminal or device connected thereto that controls the network and is arranged to instruct at least one slave terminal or device to exchange sub-network information with at least one other sub-network. On receipt of an inquiry, a slave terminal or device in another sub-networks transmits a response to the inquiring slave terminal or device in the first sub-network. The communicating slave terminals or devices pass on the sub-network information that is exchanged to the master terminal or device, for the responding sub-network to be merged into the inquiring sub network.
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1. A network comprising at least two sub-networks, each having at least one slave terminal or device and a master terminal or device connected thereto that is arranged to instruct at least one slave terminal or device in the given sub-network to exchange sub-network information with other sub-networks,
wherein an inquiring or responding state is provided for a slave terminal or device that has been instructed to exchange information, the master terminal or device of a responding slave terminal or device being arranged to dissolve its sub-network, and the master terminal or device of an inquiring slave terminal being arranged to merge the terminals or devices of the dissolved sub-network into its own sub-network.
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9. A sub-network comprising at least one slave terminal or device, and a master terminal or device connected thereto that is arranged to instruct at least one slave terminal or device in a sub-network to exchange sub-network information with other sub-networks, wherein an inquiring or responding state is provided for a slave terminal or device that has been instructed to exchange information, the master terminal or device of a responding slave terminal or device being arranged to dissolve its sub-network, and the master terminal or device of an inquiring slave terminal or device being arranged to merge the terminals or devices of the dissolved sub-network into its own sub-network.
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10. A terminal that is provided as a slave terminal or device or master terminal or device in a sub-network, wherein the terminal or device is arranged, as a master terminal or device,
to notify all the terminals or devices merged in its own sub-network of the addresses of all the terminals or devices merged in its own sub-network, to instruct a slave terminal or device to exchange sub-network information with another sub-network as a master terminal or device of a responding slave terminal, to dissolve its own sub-network, as a master terminal or device of an inquiring slave terminal or device, to merge the terminals or devices from the dissolved sub-network into its own sub-network, and wherein the terminal or device is arranged, as a slave terminal or device, to exchange sub-network information in an inquiring or responding state, to pass on the sub-network information received to its own master terminal or device, when not instructed by the master terminal or device to exchange sub-network information, not to inquire or to respond to inquiries from a terminal or device.
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