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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2015
Philips Lighting Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Oscar Garcia Morchon, Eindhoven, NL;
Sahil Sharma, Eindhoven, NL;
Alfonso De La Vega Ruiz, Eindhoven, NL;
David Perera Barreda, Eindhoven, NL;
PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
This invention relates to a device comprising a routing controller for routing messages to a plurality of node devices of a network, the routing controller comprising at least one global instance enabling the routing of messages to a routing set of node devices, at least one local instance for routing packets to a neighbor node device neighboring the device, wherein the neighbor node device is selected regardless whether the neighbor node device belongs to the routing set of node devices, and wherein the routing controller is configured to use the local instance for routing of multicast messages to the node devices.