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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2019
Applicant:
California Eastern Laboratories, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
James Paul Hartman, Canton, GA (US);
Assignee:
California Eastern Laboratories, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04L 12/1845 (2013.01); H04L 12/2816 (2013.01); H04L 12/2823 (2013.01); H04L 2012/285 (2013.01); H04L 2012/2841 (2013.01);
Abstract
A message retransmission apparatus, method, and system. The method includes transmission of a multicast message to a plurality of nodes by a network communication device, receipt by the network communication device of return status messages from the plurality of nodes during a predetermined period of time, and retransmission by the network communication device of the message that was multicast by unicast to at least one of the plurality of nodes, that node having provided a state that does not correspond with the command included in the multicast message.