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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:
Oct. 14, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2011
Applicants:

Ghulam M Bhatti, Mansfield, MA (US);

Jianlin Guo, Newton, MA (US);

Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Koon Hoo Teo, Lexington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Ghulam M Bhatti, Mansfield, MA (US);

Jianlin Guo, Newton, MA (US);

Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Koon Hoo Teo, Lexington, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Multiple routes from a data source node to multiple data destination nodes in a large scale multi-hop mesh network are discovered. Nodes discover multiple routes to two destinations in an initial discovery phase that includes only two network-wide flooding of packets. The method can also work with one destination. The method can be extended to include more destinations with a proportional increase in the communication overhead. After the completion of the discovery phase, nodes can communicate or forward their own or received data by using any of the available routes.


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