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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2016
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Jerome Bartier, Edinburgh, GB;
James Laurence Taylor, Sherborne, GB;
Keith Barnes, Waseca, MN (US);
Thomas Uhling, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
Fabrice Monier, Paris, FR;
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for discovering a device in a wireless network are described herein. For example, a first device may send a network discovery solicitation message to a second device to solicit a communication relationship (e.g., request connection to a parent). The network discovery solicitation may include one or more information elements that indicate a channel function associated with the first device and a listening window during which the first device will be listening for communications. The second device may use the channel function to frequency hop and send a network discovery message to the first device during the listening window. The network discovery message may include one or more information elements to establish a sampled schedule for the first device moving forward.