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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:
Feb. 27, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2020
Applicant:

Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);

Inventors:

Adam Kuenzi, Silverton, OR (US);

Michael Lang, Oregon City, OR (US);

Randall Dow, Dallas, OR (US);

Assignee:

CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/246 (2013.01); H04W 40/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for communicating amongst a plurality of peripherals within a mesh network including a first subnet and a second subnet including: receiving an advertisement from one or more peripherals of the plurality of peripherals, the advertisement including a hop count, a subnet identifier, and a unique subnet device identifier, the subnet identifier indicating the first subnet or the second subnet and the unique subnet device identifier indicating a specific peripheral of the plurality of peripherals within the mesh network; triggering a message send event; determining a desired stream direction within the mesh network; determining a desired subnet of the mesh network; determining a destination peripheral of the one or more peripherals within the desired subnet and in the desired stream direction in response to the hop count, the subnet identifier, and the unique subnet device identifier; connecting to the destination peripheral; and sending the message to the destination peripheral.


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