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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2000
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for allowing a communication station to newly join an existing radio network constituted of plural units of communication stations includes a radio transmission a method for carrying out radio transmission in a radio network formed of plural communication stations by a control signal from a communication station set up as a central control station, including the steps of: specifying a frame cycle of a radio transmission signal by a control of the centrat control station; setting a predetermined position in the specified frame cycle as a slot for newly joining the radio network; and if a predetermined signal is transmitted through the slot, carrying out a processing for allowing a transmission source of the signal to join the radio network.