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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:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2004
Applicant:
Heyun Zheng, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
Inventor:
Heyun Zheng, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
Assignee:
MeshNetworks, Inc., Maitland, FL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for enhancing media access control (MAC) address privacy in a multi-hop wireless network, comprising providing at least one node which generates a temporary MAC address for itself for use in the network by at least one other node, and which ensures that the temporary MAC address is unique among other nodes in the network prior to using the temporary MAC address.