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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2019
Landis+gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
James Patrick Hanley, Decatur, GA (US);
Michael Sean Holcombe, Roswell, GA (US);
Christopher Scott Hett, Smyrna, GA (US);
Lawrence Harris, Duluth, GA (US);
Landis+Gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method for transmitting unicast messages includes: obtaining, by a first node configured to communicate on a primary time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) network, a media access control (MAC) address of a second node configured to communicate on the primary TSCH network; determining whether the first node and the second node are also configured to communicate on a secondary TSCH network; and in response to determining that the first node and the second node are also configured to communicate on the secondary TSCH network: offsetting transmission of a unicast message until a second portion of a timeslot for the primary TSCH network; synchronizing to a channel hopping sequence and frequency of the secondary TSCH network for the second node, and transmitting, by the first node, the unicast message to the second node on the secondary TSCH network during the second portion of the timeslot.