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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2019
Applicant:
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventor:
Sujan Pandey, Waalre, NL;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/937 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/253 (2013.01); H04L 61/2038 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves allocating communications devices of a wired communications network to clusters, assigning addresses to the clusters, where each communications device within one of the clusters has an identical address, and conducting communications between the communications devices based on the addresses assigned to the clusters.