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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2012
Stephen Palm, Irvine, CA (US);
Edward H. Frank, Atherton, CA (US);
Bruce E. Edwards, Belmont, MA (US);
Jason A. Trachewsky, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephen Palm, Irvine, CA (US);
Edward H. Frank, Atherton, CA (US);
Bruce E. Edwards, Belmont, MA (US);
Jason A. Trachewsky, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system based upon peer-to-peer communications. A wireless terminal for peer-to-peer communications acts either as a WLAN master or as a WLAN slave. When the wireless terminal acts a master, the wireless terminal undertakes mastering duties that include transmitting a beacon interval in the frame cycle. When the wireless terminal is not tethered to a power source, mastering duties alternate according to a round-robin WLAN mastering cycle, wherein the wireless terminal acts the WLAN master during at least one frame cycle and acts the WLAN slave during other frame cycles to conserve an untethered power source of the wireless terminal.