Patent ID: 11930388
Assignee: BMIC LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
comparing, by utilizing a processor of a gateway of an integrated roofing mesh network node in communication with a mesh network of other nodes, a source address and a destination address of each data packet transmitted to and received by the integrated roofing mesh network node to an address associated with the gateway;
classifying, by utilizing the processor of the gateway, each data packet as consumed traffic if the source address or the destination address matches the address associated with the gateway and as passthrough traffic if neither the source address nor the destination address matches the address associated with the gateway;
examining, by utilizing the processor of the gateway, a packet payload for each data packet in the consumed traffic and each data packet in the passthrough traffic;
determining, by utilizing the processor of the gateway, a payload size of each data packet based on the packet payload of each data packet;
measuring, based on the payload size and by utilizing the processor of the gateway, a consumed traffic throughput, goodput, or any combination thereof, for each data packet in the consumed traffic and a passthrough traffic throughput, goodput, or any combination thereof, for each data packet in the passthrough traffic; and
determining, by utilizing the processor of the gateway an amount of mesh network bandwidth provided by a passthrough data capacity of the integrated roofing mesh network node, wherein the passthrough data capacity is based on at least one metric based on the passthrough traffic throughput, goodput, or a combination thereof.