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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:
Sep. 07, 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 low power and does not require any network addressing or routing protocol for network message delivery. Network messages are only communicated to a network node's correspondents using broadcast network messages over a wireless network. Network messages propagate throughout the network based on each correspondent node rebroadcasting received messages to its correspondent nodes, and so on. Coordinated synchronization across network nodes can be achieved by each network node broadcasting synchronization frames to its correspondents within a synchronization window time period and thereafter adjusting its own start time for the next synchronization period to converge synchronization. A guard band may also be utilized to account for any clock drift and signal path delays between any two communicating network nodes.


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