Patent ID: 11924879
Assignee: ITRON, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing program instructions that, when executed by a node device in a mesh network, cause the node device to perform operations comprising:
while the node device is in a first mode, starting a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) session, wherein the CSMA/CA session is associated with a request to send data to a second node device in the mesh network and the first mode is a unicast mode or a broadcast mode;
wherein initiating the CSMA/CA session comprises assessing whether a channel associated with a first channel schedule of the second node device is available for transmission, wherein the first channel schedule is associated with the first mode and is different from a second channel schedule of the second node device associated with a second mode, wherein the second mode is the other of the unicast mode or the broadcast mode.