PROTOCOL FOR CONFIGURING A WIRELESS NETWORK

• US 20100128634A1
• Filed: 09/22/2009
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 3, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: MILLENNIAL NET, INC. (PHC Holding GmbH)
• Inventors: Liu, Sheng, Rhee, Sokwoo
• Application Number:
  US12/564,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20100128634A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/10 based on available power or energy
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/246 Connectivity information discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/248 Connectivity information update
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A target device joins a wireless network by attempting to locate an existing routing device in a predefined neighborhood of the wireless network, designating the existing routing device as a master routing device if the existing routing device is located in the predefined neighborhood, where the master routing device is a primary recipient of data from the target device, and attempting to locate endpoint devices in the predefined neighborhood if the existing routing device is not located in the predefined neighborhood.

Claims

1. A method, performed by a target device, to join a wireless network, the method comprising:

attempting to locate an existing routing device in a predefined neighborhood of the wireless network;

designating the existing routing device as a master routing device if the existing routing device is located in the predefined neighborhood, the master routing device being a primary recipient of data from the target device; and

attempting to locate endpoint devices in the predefined neighborhood if the existing routing device is not located in the predefined neighborhood.

2-60. -60. (canceled)