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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:
Jul. 13, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2019
Applicant:

Analog Devices International Unlimited Company, Limerick, IE;

Inventors:

Lance Robert Doherty, Boston, MA (US);

Jonathan Noah Simon, Castro Valley, CA (US);

Aleksandr Lushin, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Gina Aquilano, Somerville, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2009.01); H04B 1/7156 (2011.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/208 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2013.01); H04B 1/7156 (2013.01); H04B 7/208 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for providing multiple modes of communication in wireless networks includes a network manager and a plurality of network nodes. The plurality of network nodes form a wireless network with the network manager and are configured to communicate data to the network manager using respective communication links having a first bandwidth. The plurality of network nodes are further configured to transition to a two-hop mode of communication upon one or more failures in communication to the network manager. While in the two-hop mode of communication, a respective network node of the plurality of nodes is configured to transmit node data to at least one other network node over a communication link having a second bandwidth different than the first bandwidth. The other network nodes are configured to listen for communication from the respective network node and re-transmit to the network manager the node data received from the respective network node.


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