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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jason Keith Redi, Belmont, MA (US);
Keith William Manning, Arlington, MA (US);
Mitchell Paul Tasman, Boston, MA (US);
Assignee:
BBNT Solutions LLC, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 ; G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 ; G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract
A system selects an antenna for transmitting data from a node ( - ) in an ad-hoc, multi-hop, wireless network ( ). The system receives a message from another node ( - ) of the wireless network ( ), the message including location data associated with the other node ( - ). The system determines an angle from the node ( - ) to the other node ( - ), based on the location data, to produce a determined angle. The system selects an antenna from a plurality of antennas for transmitting data to the other node ( - ) based on the determined angle.