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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2006
Robert Osann, Jr., Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Osann, Jr., Cupertino, CA (US);
Folusha Forte B.V., LLC, Dover, DE (US);
Abstract
A directional and interleaved wireless mesh network is described where mesh nodes have directional antennas facing in horizontally orthogonal directions. The antennas can be focused to have a beam width of less than ninety degrees in order to achieve greater strength of signal and radiation. Each mesh node can have two radios that communicate on separate channels, such that packets propagated through the mesh network can utilize either channel in order to hop from one node to the next. Each radio can be connected to four orthogonally directed antennas in order to enable communication with adjacent nodes. Alternatively, a separate independent radio can be connected to each antenna in order to achieve greater simultaneity of transmission and reception to the node. For example, two such radio-antenna combinations can be facing in each of the four orthogonal directions, each of the two combinations operating on a different RF channel.