Mobile telecommunications device and service
First Claim
1. A method of transmitting information over a mobile and fixed radio network having a plurality of transceivers, each with a unique internal ID number, comprising the steps of:
- a) obtaining message information desired to be transmitted;
b) determining a destination identification number (ID) for a destination transceiver desired to receive information packet;
c) creating a message packet having a message ID, the destination ID, the message information, and error detection bits;
d) broadcasting the message packet from an initiating transceiver to transceivers within range;
e) for each transceiver receiving the broadcast;
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Abstract
A highly fault tolerant method of radio communication of information in the form of a message packet employs a distributed network of transmitter/receivers `transceivers` each having a unique identification ("ID") number. An initiating transceiver creates a message packet having the ID of a transceiver intended to receive the message packet. It then broadcasts the message packet to transceivers within its transmission range. Each transceiver which receives the message packet checks to see if there are errors and sends an acknowledgement if no errors. The transceivers determine valid message packets by determining if the message has not expired, if it has not been seen before and there were no errors in the received message packet. The transceiver also determines if the transceiver ID in the message packet match its own transceiver ID, and if it does, is the message has been successfully transmitted to its intended transceiver. If the message packet is valid and the transceiver IDs do not match, the transceiver broadcasts the message to other local transceivers until a predetermined number of acknowledgements are received, or until the message expires. The transceivers which receive the message packet repeat the process.
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5 Claims
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1. A method of transmitting information over a mobile and fixed radio network having a plurality of transceivers, each with a unique internal ID number, comprising the steps of:
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a) obtaining message information desired to be transmitted; b) determining a destination identification number (ID) for a destination transceiver desired to receive information packet; c) creating a message packet having a message ID, the destination ID, the message information, and error detection bits; d) broadcasting the message packet from an initiating transceiver to transceivers within range; e) for each transceiver receiving the broadcast; - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5)
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2. checking the error detection bits for errors in the received message packet, and sending an acknowledgment signal if received with no errors,identifying if the message is a valid message packet, a valid message packet being one which was received without errors, has not expired and has a message ID which does not match stored message IDs,comparing the destination ID to the internal ID of the transceiver receiving the broadcast,storing and utilizing valid message packets which have destination IDs which match the internal ID of the transceiver receiving the broadcast, andre-broadcasting the valid message packets to other transceivers within range.
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