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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2007
Hyeong-seok Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hyeong-seok Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus of transferring information on a station to other nodes in a wireless mesh network if the station is associated in or disassociated from a mesh access point are provided. The apparatus includes detection unit which detects a disassociation or association of the station, a message generation unit which generates a disassociation message or an association message indicating that the station is associated in or disassociated from the mesh access point, a requesting unit which transmits the message to a root node in a tree structure formed using a proactive routing protocol, and a message transmission unit which broadcasts the received message.