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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2008
John Anderson Fergus Ross, Niskayuna, NY (US);
David Michael Davenport, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Anderson Fergus Ross, Niskayuna, NY (US);
David Michael Davenport, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication system includes a network controller configured to manage communication time periods in a wireless network, and a plurality of peripheral devices connected to the network controller through the wireless network. Each peripheral device is associated with a respective contiguous communication time period during which communications between the network controller and the peripheral device are allowed. The network controller is further configured to identify an open communication time period associated with one of the plurality of peripheral devices that has no communication between the network controller and the one of the plurality of peripheral devices and associate another of the plurality of peripheral devices that is associated with a different communication time period with the identified open communication time period.