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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Silver Spring Networks, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jana Van Greunen, Woodside, CA (US);
Sterling Hughes, Oakland, CA (US);
Peter Hunt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William E. San Filippo, III, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silver Spring Networks, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 40/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A node within a wireless mesh network is configured to forward a high-priority message to adjacent nodes in the wireless mesh network by either (i) transmitting the message during successive timeslots to the largest subset of nodes capable of receiving transmissions during each timeslot, or (ii) transmitting the message on each different channel during the timeslot when the largest subset of nodes are capable of receiving transmissions on each of those channels.