Wireless communication method for preventing communication interference and cut-off in one-to-multi wireless communication

• US 8,180,290 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2002
• Issued: 05/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Dong-Sik
• Primary Examiner(s): HUANG, WEN WU
• Application Number:
  US10/226,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20030045242A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,553 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/502, 455/503, 455/515
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release

Abstract

A wireless communication method capable of preventing communication interference and cut-off in one-to-multi wireless communication. The wireless communication method has the steps of: determining as to whether communication parameters satisfy a precondition for communication before a master device communicates with a slave device in a corresponding mode, the communication parameters being required for the slave devices to communicate with the master device, the precondition being that the slave devices should communicate with the master device without overlapping of communication time thereof; controlling the communication of the slave devices according to the corresponding mode by differently setting operation information of the slave devices according to the corresponding mode, when determining that the communication parameters satisfy the precondition for communication; and maintaining a connection between the slave device and the master device until the communication completes, when the time of operation of the slave devices ends due to the corresponding mode shift when the communication is not completed between the master device and the slave device. Accordingly, the interference and cut-off of communication with the slave devices of different communication times and cycles in corresponding mode can be prevented.

Claims

1. A wireless communication method, comprising the steps of:

a) determining as to whether communication parameters satisfy a precondition for communication before a single master device communicates with a slave device in a corresponding mode, the communication parameters being required for the slave devices to communicate with the master device, the precondition being that the slave devices should communicate with the master device without overlapping of communication time thereof; and

b) controlling the communication of the slave devices according to the corresponding mode by differently setting operation information of the slave devices according to the corresponding mode, when determining that the communication parameters satisfy the precondition for communication.

2. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 1, after the step b), further comprising a step of maintaining a connection between the slave device and the master device until the communication completes, when the time of operation of the slave devices ends due to the corresponding mode shift under a condition that the communication is not completed between the master device and the slave device.

3. A wireless communication method, comprising the steps of:

a) determining as to whether communication parameters satisfy a precondition for communication before a single master device communicates with a slave device in a corresponding mode, the communication parameters being required for the slave devices to communicate with the master device, the precondition being that the slave devices should communicate with the master device without overlapping of communication time thereof; and

b) controlling the communication of the slave devices according to the corresponding mode by differently setting operation information of the slave devices according to the corresponding mode, when determining that the communication parameters satisfy the precondition for communication,

after the step a), further comprising the steps of;

a-1) changing the communication parameters according to the master device negotiations with the slave devices so that the communication parameters can satisfy the precondition, when determining that the communication parameters do not satisfy the precondition; and

a-2) determining whether new communication parameters changed through negotiations with the slave devices fall within a range that is changeable by the slave devices,

wherein the step b) is performed when it is determined that the new communication parameters fall within the range changeable by the slave devices.

4. The wireless communication method of claim 3, further comprising a step c) of transmitting a message to a user and to the slave device requesting the communication, indicating that it is impossible to control the communication according to the corresponding mode of the slave device requesting the communication, when determining in the step a-2) that the new communication parameters do not fall within the range changeable by the slave device.

5. The wireless communication method of claim 4, wherein the corresponding mode between the master device and the slave devices include at least one of a power save, an inquiry, an inquiry scan, a page and a page scan.

6. The wireless communication method of claim 5, wherein the power save corresponding mode includes at least one of a park mode, a hold mode and a sniff mode.

7. The wireless communication method of claim 6, wherein the communication parameters include at least one of a start point of operation, a time of operation, and a cycle of the corresponding mode, for the communication between the master device and the slave devices.

8. The wireless communication method of claim 7, wherein the precondition comprises at least one of conditions that:

a total sum of the time of operation and the cycle of the slave devices to satisfy a predetermined value;

the cycle of each of the slave devices according to the communication parameters is as integral-number of times greater than a minimum cycle, the minimum cycle being a base value of the cycle; and

the minimum cycle is greater than a total sum of

     1) a total sum of the operation time and

     2) a total sum of maximum time for the slave device to re-receive a certain packet or to receive a next packet from the master device, while the minimum cycle is less than a supervision timeout value which is a maximum allotment of time for the determined slave device to connect to the master device.