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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2021
Synapse Wireless, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Jon Martin, Huntsville, AL (US);
Synapse Wireless, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for synchronizing nodes in a mesh network. A system in some embodiments may comprise a node having a counter that is incremented using a non-linear counting function. The node may be incremented using the function at intervals as measured by an internal oscillator of the node. The counter may also be incremented by a fixed amount when receiving a sync-packet from neighboring nodes. The non-linear counting function effectively smooths out the variability of the internal oscillator while the synchronization packet acts to keep the value of the counter synchronized with the value of the counters of neighboring nodes. This allows nodes in a mesh network to be synchronized for certain events while avoiding the issues of other synchronization techniques.