Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110078461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK - A system and method for improving digital communication in a wireless mobile ad-hoc network. More specifically, the system includes one or more portable network devices operable to support the seamless operation of a self-initializing, self-healing, adaptive portable network. The portable network devices implement protocols that provide bandwidth management capabilities for use with radios, routers and other wireless network devices. Each portable network device includes at least one wireless transceiver, a processor and control software. The processor and control software are logically coupled to the wireless transceiver to facilitate digital communication via a plurality of communication channels with other network devices. | 03-31-2011 |
20110085530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK - A system and method for improving digital communication in a wireless mobile ad-hoc network. More specifically, the system includes one or more portable network devices operable to support the seamless operation of a self-initializing, self-healing, adaptive portable network. The portable network devices implement protocols that provide bandwidth management capabilities for use with radios, routers and other wireless network devices. Each portable network device includes at least one wireless transceiver, a processor and control software. The processor and control software are logically coupled to the wireless transceiver to facilitate digital communication via a plurality of communication channels with other network devices. | 04-14-2011 |
20130128726 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKET DELIVERY BACKTRACKING - Traditional computer networks have been designed with the need for highly reliable packet delivery. This is largely handled by a centrally managed simple send-acknowledge protocol. In a highly dynamic mesh network, these methods are inadequate to ensure the most reliable packet delivery. This invention uses the natural redundancy of routes in a mesh and other techniques to increase the reliability of a network, even as the paths to any given node are dynamic in nature. | 05-23-2013 |
20140160996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECENTRALIZED VOICE CONFERENCING OVER DYNAMIC NETWORKS - Systems, devices, methods for use of a highly mobile conferencing system over potentially dynamic networks, such as a self-healing mobile mesh network which, by means of discrete embedded computers mixes analog and digital data for end user communications in remote, disaster, warfare or topographically challenging environments with further capability of conference calling between groups and discrete nodes within the network. | 06-12-2014 |
20140169171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTICAST OVER HIGHLY MOBILE MESH NETWORKS - Systems, devices, and methodology for removing echo and reducing congestion in multicast (broadcast) over a dynamic self-healing mobile mesh network, by use of discrete embedded computers synchronously tracking mesh connections and link quality across multiple RF connections, keeping multicast both efficient and effective in a highly kinetic, ever changing, mesh topology. | 06-19-2014 |
20140219091 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FLOOD BROADCASTS IN A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK - Computer networks with multiple nodes are often required to deliver packets to all nodes in the network, commonly referred to as “flooding.” Flooding is used to deliver multicast and broadcast packets generated by application, network and other layers of the networking stack. Flooding can be done very reliably but less efficiently via node to node “unicast” transmissions, or very efficiently but less reliably via “broadcast” transmissions. In order to balance reliability with efficiency, this invention defines a threshold for the number of neighboring nodes as seen by a given node prior to a flooding operation to determine whether data should be unicast or broadcast. Below that threshold, unicast is used; at or above that threshold, broadcast is used. The invention also incorporates knowledge of nodes seen in turn by neighbor nodes as part of this decision. | 08-07-2014 |
20150055471 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUALITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF NETWORK TRAFFIC - The protocol determines the quality of each node to node link(s), based on an exponentially weighted moving average of the time each packet spends within the network node. Once determined, that quality of link is then mapped into the physical QoS resources of the networking hardware in use (within the network). Packets destined for higher quality links will see an upgrade of their QoS rating, while packets destined to lower quality links will see a downgrade of their QoS rating. That adjustment permits the higher quality links to be processed before the lower quality links resulting in more efficient and complete communications in the network. Poorer quality links will no longer act as roadblocks to the higher quality packets. | 02-26-2015 |