Nokia Corporation

Jari Leppänen

Tomi Heinonen

Antti Forstadius

Paavo Pietola

A network including a host device and a plurality of transceiver satellite nodes for communicating data from terminal devices interacting with the nodes, to the host. The nodes include identification codes used by the host for establishing wireless communication links either between a node and the host, or between two or more nodes. The host includes a data store for storing identification codes of nodes. The host pages the nodes by their identification codes and, upon establishing communication with a node, the list of identification codes is passed to the node, which then pages other nodes which may be out of range of the host, which then receive the list and may page yet other nodes, until all listed nodes are linked into the network. A tag reader is connected or connectable to the host for reading tags associated with nodes and thereby capturing the identification codes of the nodes.

Short range RF network configuration

A wall-mountable and desk-mountable radio device comprising a base () and a radio unit (), inside of which radio unit is an antenna integrated on a circuit board () and a group of indicator lamps (). The cover of the radio unit is provided with first openings (), and the base comprises corresponding photoconductors (), which narrowly fit into the first openings (). The cover of the radio unit is also provided with one or more second holes (), into which the photoconductors () fit narrowly. The indicator lamps () are arranged at the first openings (). The second openings () are arranged so that, threaded therein, the photoconductors () are placed above the first openings (), and so the photoconductors () receive the indicator lights in both desk and wall installations. The photoconductors are provided with a bevelled surface () for turning the indicator light obliquely downward in wall installation and obliquely upward, towards the eyes of the user, in desk installation.

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Nokia, Finland

Jari Leppänen