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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:
Jan. 19, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 04, 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);

Joe Fox, Spanish Fork, UT (US);

Assignee:

Hall Labs, LLC, Provo, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04B 1/715 (2011.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/121 (2013.01); H04B 1/715 (2013.01); H04W 72/005 (2013.01); H04B 2001/7154 (2013.01); H04L 41/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are wireless devices operable at intermediate wireless at ranges of thousands of meters, utilizing packets that include a preamble and a data payload. Devices may be such things as keypads, door latches, occupancy monitors, sprinkler controllers and other devices needing a communications link. A digital spread-spectrum frequency hopping rotation is used, wherein packet transmissions rotate through frequency sequences. Used is a spectrum-impact-smoothed channel sequence, each channel specifying a unique preamble frequency relative to the other sequences and channels. The set is traversed as a broadcasted stream is transmitted, thereby distributing the focused radio-frequency emission impact of packets having long preambles over time. Packet acknowledgments are deferred until a group of packets in a stream has been exchanged. 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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