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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2020
Lutron Technology Company Llc, Coopersburg, PA (US);
Jeffrey S. Hayes, Allentown, PA (US);
Galen Edgar Knode, Macungie, PA (US);
Ankit Bhutani, Aston, PA (US);
Richard S. Camden, Coopersburg, PA (US);
Jordan H. Crafts, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Jason A. King, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Lutron Technology Company LLC, Coopersburg, PA (US);
Abstract
A control device may communicate messages with devices in a network through a parent device, and receive messages from auxiliary parent devices. The control device may store a respective communication metric associated with each of the parent device and the one or more auxiliary parent devices. The control device may set an auxiliary parent device of the one or more auxiliary parent devices as the parent device of the control device, e.g., when a respective communication metric of the auxiliary parent device determined to be set as the parent device indicates a stronger communication link than the parent device. The control device may determine that the respective communication metric of the auxiliary parent device indicates a stronger potential communication link than the parent device when the average received signal strength indicator of auxiliary parent device is greater than the average received signal strength indicator of the parent device.