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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2007
Lance R. Doherty, Oakland, CA (US);
Jonathan Simon, Castro Valley, CA (US);
William Alan Lindsay, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Lance R. Doherty, Oakland, CA (US);
Jonathan Simon, Castro Valley, CA (US);
William Alan Lindsay, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Dust Networks, Inc., Hayward, CA (US);
Abstract
Communicating for a mesh network is disclosed. A battery-powered node is assigned to communicate with a sending powered backbone node. The sending powered backbone node is assigned to either a first group or a second group. If the sending powered backbone node is assigned to the first group, then the sending powered backbone node sends a packet to either a gateway node or a second group receiving powered backbone node that is assigned to the second group and that is closer to the gateway node. If the sending powered backbone node is assigned to the second group, then the sending powered backbone node sends a packet to either a gateway node or a first group receiving powered backbone node that is assigned to the first group and that is closer to the gateway node.