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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2009
Peter Loc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Foo Keong Tang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Peter Loc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Foo Keong Tang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A wireless network apparatus includes an infrastructure controller to exchange packets of data with a wireless base station over a wireless channel, and receives start beacon packets and stop beacon packets from the wireless base station. An ad hoc controller exchanges packets of data with one or more wireless end stations over the wireless channel. A master controller causes the infrastructure controller to exchange packets of data with the wireless base station over the wireless channel only after receiving one of the start beacon packets and before receiving a next one of the stop beacon packets, and causes the ad hoc controller to exchange packets of data with the one or more wireless end stations over the wireless channel only after receiving one of the stop beacon packets and before receiving a next one of the start beacon packets.