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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2009
Maulin D. Patel, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
Richard Chen, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Maulin D. Patel, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
Richard Chen, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method () for coordinating access to a wireless medium among multiple co-located body area networks (BANs). The method comprises detecting, by a master device of a first BAN, at least one alien BAN using beacons received from at least one co-located BAN, wherein an alien BAN is a BAN having its round start time (RST) misaligned with a RST of the first BAN (S); recording a RST offset between the first BAN and the at least one alien BAN (S); based on the RST offset determining which of the first BAN and the at least one alien BAN is an initiator BAN and which is a target BAN (S); and realigning the RST of the initiator BAN with the RST of the target BAN (S).