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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. 27, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Guy Mcilroy, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventor:

Guy McIlroy, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2006.01); H04W 40/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/023 (2013.01); H04L 1/0013 (2013.01); H04L 1/1621 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/32 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04W 40/005 (2013.01); H04W 40/246 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 56/002 (2013.01); H04W 56/0015 (2013.01); H04W 56/0075 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an improved implementation of a flood fill mesh network that utilizes probability forwarding for rebroadcasting network messages. The forwarding probability may be determined based on analyzing a network topology map constructed by each network node relative to its neighbor nodes communicating on the network and derived from state information contained in synchronization frames broadcasted by the network nodes on the network. The forwarding probability may comprise a statistical probability that a message frame received by a network node will be forwarded to the intended destination network node by one or more of the network node's neighbor network nodes.


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