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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Giriraj Goyal, Bangalore, IN;
Ravi Shekhar, Thubarahalli, IN;
Vishal Agarwal, Ramnagar, IN;
Srivathsa Sridhara, Bhadravathi, IN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure relates to performing a reliable broadcast from a source device to a plurality of nodes. In an aspect, a representative node establishes a first wireless communication link with each of one or more non-representative nodes, receives, from each of the one or more non-representative nodes, information indicating an ability of the one or more non-representative nodes to sniff wireless communications, establishes a second wireless communication link with the source device, configures the second wireless link based on the information received from the one or more non-representative nodes, sends control information for the second wireless communication link to each of the one or more non-representative nodes, and receives communications from the source device over the second wireless communication link, wherein the one or more non-representative nodes sniff the communications on the second wireless communication link based on the control information for that link.