Patent ID: 11876780
Assignee: QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 4:
5. One or more memories collectively having contents configured to cause a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
making direct or indirect wireless connections between a first communication device and each of one or more additional communication devices;
determining that no registration authority is available to provide trust to the one or more additional communication devices;
in response to the determining:
appointing the first communication device provisional registration authority; and
enabling the first communication device to, as provisional registration authority, provisionally register the one or more additional communication devices for participation in a first network;

after the provisionally registering:
making direct or indirect wireless connections to a registration authority of a second network, wherein the first communication device formerly participated in the second network and wherein and the second network is no longer accessible to the first communication device; and
in response to making direct or indirect wireless connections to the registration authority of the second network communicating, in its role as provisional registration authority for the first network, with the registration authority for the second network to synchronize registration time.