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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2013
Silver Spring Networks, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
George Flammer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sterling Hughes, Oakland, CA (US);
Daniel McKernan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Raj Vaswani, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Silver Spring Networks, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system of operating a utility node to communicate in a wireless utility network are provided. A utility node in the wireless utility network discovers at least two access points each respectively constituting an interface between a wide area network and the wireless utility network. The node discovers at least two access points constituting an interface between the two networks, registers with the discovered access points, and obtains at least two unique network addresses each respectively associated with a corresponding one of the access points with which the node has registered. The node provides the at least two addresses to a back office server which is communication with the wide area network to provide the back office server with at least two routes to reach the node. The at least two routes are respectively associated with a corresponding one of the access points with which the node registered.