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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2007
Jeffery D. Fitch, Pilot Hill, CA (US);
Raju Pandey, Davis, CA (US);
Jeffery D. Fitch, Pilot Hill, CA (US);
Raju Pandey, Davis, CA (US);
SynapSense Corporation, Folsom, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for adapting to failures in gateway devices in mesh networks. An example embodiment is configured to provide a plurality of interconnected nodes in a mesh network, at least one node of the plurality of nodes being designated a primary node, the primary node providing timing synchronization for other nodes of the plurality of nodes; and the primary node to designate another one of the plurality of nodes as a secondary node, the secondary node only providing timing synchronization for other nodes of the plurality of nodes when the primary node fails to provide the timing synchronization.