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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2022
Applicant:
Inplay, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
INPLAY, INC., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); G06F 13/10 (2006.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); G06F 13/10 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A short-range wireless communication gateway, such as a Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) gateway, has improved aggregated throughput by incorporating multiple central devices within a single gateway, where each central device is configured to operate with a subset of the peripheral devices. Algorithms are provided to determine to which central device a newly discovered peripheral device will connect. To help avoid data collisions, the wireless band dedicated to the short-range wireless communication can be divided into a plurality of sub-bands, where the number of sub-bands typically corresponds with the number of central devices within the gateway.