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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:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2018
Applicant:

Benchmark Electronics, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US);

Inventor:

Jim Luecke, Scottsdale, AZ (US);

Assignee:

BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC., Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/18 (2009.01); G01S 5/22 (2006.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/003 (2013.01); G01S 5/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/126 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2013.01); H04W 52/0206 (2013.01); H04W 56/002 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 74/02 (2013.01); H04W 74/0816 (2013.01); H04W 88/184 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for location aware networking in a wireless ad-hoc network having a plurality of wireless nodes in a geographic area comprising: dividing the geographic area into a plurality of grids; determining a location of a particular wireless node; determining a corresponding grid where the particular wireless node resides; determining a cluster head for the corresponding grid; connecting corresponding wireless nodes in the corresponding grid to the cluster head, wherein the cluster head of the corresponding grid periodically gather data from the corresponding wireless nodes, aggregate the data and transmits the data to a gateway; and coupling the cluster head of the corresponding grid to cluster heads of each of the plurality of grids forming a pathway to the gateway, the cluster head of the corresponding grid transmitting the data through the pathway or directly to the gateway.


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