Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-channel mesh nodes employing stacked responses
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Application No.: US14683206Application Date: 2015-04-10
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Publication No.: US09288712B2Publication Date: 2016-03-15
- Inventor: George Flammer, III
- Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.
- Current Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Main IPC: H04J3/00
- IPC: H04J3/00 ; H04W28/02 ; H04L1/16 ; H04B1/7143 ; H04L12/743 ; H04L12/855 ; H04L12/865 ; H04L1/00 ; H04W84/18

Abstract:
Rather than using a large number of transceivers (transmitter/receiver pairs) operating in parallel, Access Points with multiple channels are used to aggregate, or stack, transmitted response communications, e.g., transmitting multiple acknowledgements (ACKs) in a single packet to one or more sources of received packets. The method includes sending on a plurality of channels, by each of a plurality of respective first nodes, a communication to a second node, receiving on the plurality of channels, by the second node, the communication from each of the plurality of first nodes and sending, by the second node, a transmission that contains a response to each communication that was successfully received from each of the plurality of first nodes. The response to each of the plurality of first nodes is part of a single message sent by the second node.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150215813A1 MULTI-CHANNEL MESH NODES EMPLOYING STACKED RESPONSES Public/Granted day:2015-07-30
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