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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2011
William K. Morgan, Wauconda, IL (US);
William P. Alberth, Prairie Grove, IL (US);
Daniel J. Declerck, Lake Barrington, IL (US);
William K. Morgan, Wauconda, IL (US);
William P. Alberth, Prairie Grove, IL (US);
Daniel J. Declerck, Lake Barrington, IL (US);
Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for choosing members of a local-area network and choosing a network coordinator among the members is provided herein. During operation a mobile node will determine presence information for nodes within its local area. These nodes will be solicited by the node to be part of a local-area network. Of all nodes that accept the request to form a local area network, a network coordinator for the local-area network will be chosen by determining which node's data budget allows for the cheapest transfer of data. The node with the best data budget is then chosen to be a network coordinator.