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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Stephen Ades, Over, GB;
Philip T. Hughes, Longstanton, GB;
Malcolm C. Taylor, Great Shelford, GB;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for assigning timeslot numbers to timeslots used for transmission and reception of signals between nodes in a network () of nodes (A–H). Each node (A–H) is able to communicate with at least one other node (A–H) by a transmission link () between said each node (A–H) and said at least one other node (A–H). At least some of the nodes (A–H) have a respective transmission link () to each of plural other nodes (A–H). Each transmission of a signal over a link () from a first node (A–H) to a second node (A–H) takes place during a timeslot. The method includes the steps of assigning timeslot numbers to each timeslot in sequence in ascending order of the number of available choices of timeslot number at each timeslot.