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Radio frequency local area network

  • US 5,394,436 A
  • Filed: 06/08/1994
  • Issued: 02/28/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An RF multi-hop data communication network comprising:

  • a plurality of mobile terminal nodes;

    a plurality of bridging nodes which dynamically create and revise communication pathways between any two nodes in the network;

    each of the bridging nodes independently storing and maintaining local information that specifies how communication packets received should flow through that bridging node toward a destination node;

    said plurality of bridging nodes, together, forming a spanning tree which specifies the communication pathways in the RF multi-hop communication network; and

    each bridging node adding to each communication packet received the identity of a next node in a communication pathway to the destination node.

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