The Chamberlain Group, Inc.

Hamin Tien

Robert Roy Keller, Jr

Jeremy Eugene Jenkins

Robert S Study, Iii

Jeremy E Jenkins

Robert R Keller

Robert S Study

Madhurima Neillikuppam Thevanathan

Madhurima Thevanathan

One or more repeaters enable the conveyance of both asynchronous and synchronous transmissions. This can comprise receiving, via a first carrier, a transmission from a message source that is asynchronous with respect to a time slot partitioning of the communication protocol and then, when the asynchronous transmission is received during an asynchronous source transmission portion, buffering a corresponding message until a next available synchronous time slot opportunity during the asynchronous source transmission portion and then transmitting the message via the first carrier to at least attempt to forward the message.

Facilitating asynchronous transmissions using a protocol having asynchronous and synchronous portions

A pool of identifiers are individually used by corresponding particular ones of a repeaters. A communications protocol as used by the repeaters provides time slots to be used by these repeaters when making their transmissions. Each of the time slots is associated with individual corresponding ones of the identifiers, though the time slots are allocated unequally amongst the identifiers such that at least one of the identifiers has more time slots allocated to that identifier, over a given beacon cycle, than others of the identifiers.

Method and apparatus pertaining to wireless communications systems

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