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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2014
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Xiangpeng Jing, San Diego, CA (US);
Abhishek Patil, San Diego, CA (US);
Anuj Bhatnagar, San Diego, CA (US);
Aixin Liu, San Diego, CA (US);
Djung N. Nguyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include collecting node topology information by a node of a wireless home mesh network, where the node topology information includes a list of neighbor nodes for the node. Thereafter, a communication socket is opened, and a node topology packet, including a lust of neighbor nodes, is transmitted in order to produce a global network topology map. Other embodiments are described and claimed.