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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2022
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes broadcasting, by a multicast anchor, a first message that advertises a multicast service for a multicast group, and receiving, by the multicast anchor from a BLE device, a unicast message that indicates a request to join a BLE device to the multicast group. The method further includes joining, by the multicast anchor, the BLE device to the multicast group as a multicast client, and transmitting, by the multicast anchor to the BLE device, one or more multicast messages for the multicast group.