Chirp networks
First Claim
1. A system of transmitting of data packets within a network comprising:
- at least one device transmitting at least one short communication message;
at least one network router comprising a chirp receiver for the at least one short communication message;
wherein said chirp receiver accepts said short communication message during an access function of said router without interrupting other communications; and
wherein said router further comprises an uplink function connecting said least one router to an external ip-based network using intermediary routers;
a downlink function connecting said least one router to other routers within said network; and
a scanning function wherein said uplink function, downlink function, scanning, and access functions are performed using one physical radio acting as multiple logical radios wherein the uplink function logical radio and the downlink function logical radio connect the routers participating in the system in a tree-based virtual switch.
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Abstract
A network combining wireless and wired elements is described, using a multi-slot modular mesh node to house diverse transceiver elements (e.g. IR, Wi-Fi, Powerline). A radio agnostic tree based mesh network is formed, based on what type of wireless links are formed on the uplink and downlink of the backhaul and what type of radios are used for the Access Points AP. In addition to servicing IP based clients (e.g. Wi-Fi, WiMax, Bluetooth), the modular mesh nodes APs may also serve as receivers/collectors for low cost chirp devices. The method of transport is standard IP based packets yet security is inherent in this chirp-based implementation: only mesh nodes are privy to the routing tables that indicate that packet addresses are not IP. Multiple methods to obfuscate packet flow are presented. An organic approach to providing category/class based form of data type identification is proposed, to support a (dynamic) M2M Social Network Applications in-device discovery, registration and control are presented.
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8 Claims
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1. A system of transmitting of data packets within a network comprising:
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at least one device transmitting at least one short communication message; at least one network router comprising a chirp receiver for the at least one short communication message; wherein said chirp receiver accepts said short communication message during an access function of said router without interrupting other communications; and wherein said router further comprises an uplink function connecting said least one router to an external ip-based network using intermediary routers;
a downlink function connecting said least one router to other routers within said network; and
a scanning function wherein said uplink function, downlink function, scanning, and access functions are performed using one physical radio acting as multiple logical radios wherein the uplink function logical radio and the downlink function logical radio connect the routers participating in the system in a tree-based virtual switch. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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