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Methods and apparatus for selecting a device to perform shared functionality in a deterministic and fair manner in a wireless data communication system

  • US 9,860,862 B1
  • Filed: 11/28/2016
  • Issued: 01/02/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented in a first transceiver device of multiple transceiver devices in a data communication system configured to distribute functionality among the multiple transceiver devices, the method comprising:

  • sending an identifier of the first transceiver device to other transceiver devices of the multiple transceiver devices;

    receiving identifiers of the other transceiver devices;

    updating a synchronization value for the data communication system, the updated synchronization value comprising a value used to facilitate keeping the multiple transceiver devices synchronized;

    generating for a given time, for each transceiver device of the multiple transceiver devices, a selection measure from the updated synchronization value and the respective identifier of each of the transceiver devices;

    ranking for the given time each of the multiple transceiver devices based on the generated selection measures; and

    selecting, based on the ranking, one of the multiple transceiver devices as a transceiver to transmit a beacon at the given time.

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