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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2017
Signify Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Xiangyu Wang, Eindhoven, NL;
Armand Michel Marie Lelkens, Heerlen, NL;
Rick Van Haasen, Eindhoven, NL;
Zhizhong Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Peiliang Dong, Shanghai, CN;
Rong Fan, Shanghai, CN;
Peter Fitski, Helmond, NL;
Emmanuel David Lucas Michael Frimout, Nuenen, NL;
Robert Cornelis Houtepen, Breda, NL;
SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for operating a communication apparatus in a network comprising a plurality of communication nodes, upon reception of a message at the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus starting a retransmission delay being selected at random from a retransmission delay interval, said retransmission delay interval being dependent on at least one of a status of the communication apparatus and a property of the received message, the communication apparatus monitors retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes during said retransmission delay and the communication apparatus transmitting a retransmission of said message at the expiry of said retransmission delay if a statistic based on the retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes is below a threshold.