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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:
Dec. 05, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 04, 2016
Applicant:

Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US);

Inventors:

Garret E. Rittenhouse, Burlington, VT (US);

Jonathan Wieman, Ferrisburg, VT (US);

Assignee:

Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/085 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A channel management method includes determining utilization of a primary wireless channel, determining utilization of one or more secondary wireless channels, and comparing utilization of the primary wireless channel with utilization of the each of the one or more secondary wireless channels. If utilization of a secondary wireless channel of the one or more secondary wireless channels is lower than the utilization of the primary channel, data communication between a data concentrator and a remote wireless node is routed from the primary channel to the secondary channel.


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