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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Hall Labs Llc, Provo, UT (US);

Inventors:

David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);

Craig Boswell, Draper, UT (US);

Everett D. Robinson, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);

Assignee:

Hall Labs LLC, Provo, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 43/0823 (2013.01); H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are hub-based wireless networks employing end-devices at intermediate wireless at ranges of thousands of meters. End-devices may be such things as keypads, door latches, occupancy monitors, sprinkler controllers and other devices controlled or monitored in a campus or a collection of buildings. A synchronous mode is used requiring each paired end-device to timely respond to regular packets initiated at a hub. The hub monitors the quality of a communications link on a channel to each end-device, and applies varying levels of redundancy based upon a recent history of success and failure of packet exchanges, which measurement may be a value of badness increased as errors are encountered and decreased as packet communication is successful. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.


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