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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2009
Applicant:
Kenneth C. Shuey, Zebulon, NC (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth C. Shuey, Zebulon, NC (US);
Assignee:
Elster Electricity, LLC, Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, wireless mesh network and processor-readable storage medium for promoting successful end-to-end communication in a polled mesh network while improving system throughput are disclosed herein. Successful communications are acknowledged at each hop level to reduce the need to duplicate packets for redundancy. In this way, if a first bidirectional node transmits a packet to a second bidirectional node, the second bidirectional node acknowledges the packet, and the first bidirectional node receives the acknowledgement, then the first bidirectional node does not need to send a duplicate packet.