Patent ID: 11968112
Assignee: PULSE IQ, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A method of distributed automatic link-condition-adaptive establishing of best communication paths through a mesh network including router devices (RTDs), between a coordinator device (CRD) and a destination (DST) device comprising:
a) during a time interval preceding a system clock nth increment, index “n” being integer 1, each member of an initial group of the RTDs receiving, over a respective initial reception path from the CRD to the member of the initial group of the RTDs, a CRD broadcast of a route request (RQS), the RQS comprising an identifier (DST-ID) of the DST device and, in response, each member of the initial group of the RTDs estimating, as respective estimated a quality (EQI) of its respective initial reception path from the CRD, between a good hop and a bad hop and instantiating a routing record, indicating the member of the initial group of the RTDs being an end node of a respective hop path from the CRD, in a respective in-progress hop connection from the CRD to the DST device;
b) at the system clock nth increment each member of the initial group of the RTDs sending, as a respective nth increment rebroadcasting (RBS) sender, a respective nth increment RBS of the RQS, each respective nth increment RBS of the RQS configured for reception by a respective (n+1)th increment group of the RTDs, each member of the respective (n+1)th increment group of the RTDs receiving the respective nth increment RBS over a respective (n+1)th increment reception path; and
c) during a time interval extending from the system clock nth increment to the system clock (n+1)th increment, members of the (n+1)nth group of the RTDs in response to it receiving, over its respective (n+1)th increment reception path paths, one or more of the nth increment RBSs and, in response, each member of the nth group estimating a quality (EQI) of its respective (n−1)th increment reception path, between a good hop and a bad hop and instantiating a routing record, indicating now being a current end node of a hop sequence from the CRD to the DST device and having a total path quality (TPQ), which is based at least in part on the one hop from the CRD and on the EQI of its respective (n−1)th increment reception path.