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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2011
Scott William Jacobs, Peoria, IL (US);
Karl William Kleimenhagen, Peoria, IL (US);
Roger Dwight Watkins, Dunlap, IL (US);
Dexter Grant Travis, Kyle, TX (US);
Scott William Jacobs, Peoria, IL (US);
Karl William Kleimenhagen, Peoria, IL (US);
Roger Dwight Watkins, Dunlap, IL (US);
Dexter Grant Travis, Kyle, TX (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method enables a radio receiver to distinguish sensor probes supplying data to the receiver over a long period of time. The method includes each probe generating a random number sent to the receiver to identify the probe. Each probe and the receiver also uses a pseudo-random process to identify a time of transmission for each probe. The pseudo-random process helps keep the transmission times for the probes separate in the presence of oscillator drift. If a transmission collision occurs, the receiver ignores all probes in the collision and waits until the pseudo-random process separates the probe transmissions.