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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:
Mar. 04, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2022
Applicant:

Synapse Wireless, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);

Inventors:

Coleman D. Bagwell, Madison, AL (US);

Jon Martin, Huntsville, AL (US);

Benjamin Kade Taylor, Huntsville, AL (US);

Assignee:

Synapse Wireless, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 40/20 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 40/20 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04L 12/189 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for selecting a suitable proxy to be used for adding a new node to an existing wireless mesh network and quickly finding the new node and bringing it into a wireless mesh network. More specifically, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, a neighbor of the target node can be automatically and quickly found and used as a proxy to update the network settings of the target node, enabling the target node to communicate on an existing network. In some embodiments, a proxy node can be selected based on relative locations of the new and existing nodes, as indicated by a site map.


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