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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2012
Applicants:

Geoffrey Scott Martin, Overland Park, KS (US);

Michael Philip Dougan, Leawood, KS (US);

Inventors:

Geoffrey Scott Martin, Overland Park, KS (US);

Michael Philip Dougan, Leawood, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04B 7/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for connecting mesh devices to a wireless network. The system includes at least one base station and mesh devices that are part of a mesh network. The base station is configured with a database that stores metrics for each mesh device. The base station may identify one or more mesh devices that are suitable to communicate data for each of mesh devices based on the stored metrics. The identified suitable devices proxy communications for other mesh devices over the wireless network.


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