Multi-system mesh network

• US 20050190778A1
• Filed: 12/16/2004
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ozluturk, Fatih
• Application Number:
  US11/013,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20050190778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/406
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/22 Alternate routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/243 using M+N parallel active paths
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/12 based on transmission quality or channel quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

A transmission is simultaneously provided on multiple mesh networks. Retransmission between two nodes may be performed for the same communication along multiple networks in a mesh topography for the multiple networks. This permits communication to be effected in a mesh topography where one or all systems would not be able to provide a complete network connection within any given system.

Claims

1. A mesh network architecture, in which at least two nodes with two or more paths between them, wherein at least one node communicates within the network according to at least two different system protocols for the same communicated data.

2. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein said node communication according to at least two different system protocols receives in a first system protocol and transmits in a second system protocol.

3. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein said node communication according to at least two different system protocols receives in a first system protocol and transmits in a second system protocol, and at least one other node receives in the second system protocol and transmits in at least on of said one system protocol or a third system protocol.

4. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across multiple air interfaces of different networks.

5. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across nodes of different networked systems.

6. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across one of multiple air interfaces of different networked systems or nodes of different networked systems.

7. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across one of multiple air interfaces of different networked systems or nodes of different networked systems, the different networked systems including WLAN and UMTS systems, thereby permitting routing of data across a combination of said WLAN and UMTS systems.

8. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein:

the network transfers communication received at a node within a network to other nodes according to a mesh network topography;

at least one of the nodes receives in one network system and transmits in a second network system;

the retransmission in the second network system renders a mesh topography in the second system operated concurrently with a mesh topography in the first system; and

the network provides transmissions for the same communication between two nodes along multiple networks in a mesh topography for the multiple networks.

9. The mesh network architecture of claim 1, wherein:

the network substantially simultaneously receives communication at a node within a network in multiple system formats for transmission to corresponding multiple systems to other nodes according to a mesh network topographies under each of said system formats; and

the network provides transmissions for the same communication between two nodes along multiple networks in a mesh topography for the multiple networks.

10. A method of communicating in a mesh network, the method comprising:

determining multiple communication routes for communicating between two nodes, and communicating simultaneously through the multiple communication routes, in which at least two nodes provide communication links along the two different routes; and

using at least two different communication protocols so as to establish the multiple communication routes along the two different protocols, wherein at least one node communicates within the network according to the two different system protocols for the same communicated data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said node communication communicating simultaneously through the multiple communication routes receives in a first system protocol and transmits in a second system protocol.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said node communication according to at least two different system protocols receives in a first system protocol and transmits in a second system protocol, and at least one other node receives in the second system protocol and transmits in at least on of said one system protocol or a third system protocol.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across multiple air interfaces of different networks.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across nodes of different networked systems.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across one of multiple air interfaces of different networked systems or nodes of different networked systems.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the nodes communicating according to the different system protocols establish mesh networks across one of multiple air interfaces of different networked systems or nodes of different networked systems, the different networked systems including WLAN and UMTS systems, thereby permitting routing of data across a combination of said WLAN and UMTS systems.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the network transfers communication received at a node within a network to other nodes according to a mesh network topography;

at least one of the nodes receives in one network system and transmits in a second network system;

the retransmission in the second network system renders a mesh topography in the second system operated concurrently with a mesh topography in the first system; and

the network provides transmissions for the same communication between two nodes along multiple networks in a mesh topography for the multiple networks.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the network substantially simultaneously receives communication at a node within a network in multiple system formats for transmission to corresponding multiple systems to other nodes according to a mesh network topographies under each of said system formats; and

the network provides transmissions for the same communication between two nodes along multiple networks in a mesh topography for the multiple networks.

19. A semiconductor circuit device for communicating in a mesh network, the circuit device comprising:

a circuit for determining multiple communication routes for communicating between two nodes, and communicating simultaneously through the multiple communication routes, in which at least two nodes provide communication links along the two different routes; and

a circuit for using at least two different communication protocols so as to establish the multiple communication routes along the two different protocols, wherein at least one node communicates within the network according to the two different system protocols for the same communicated data, wherein the communicating according to the different system protocols establishes mesh networks across one of multiple air interfaces of different networked systems or nodes of different networked systems.