Patent ID: 11894943
Assignee: ECOLINK INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A network control device for self-assigning a network identification code to itself, comprising:
a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;
a wireless transmitter for transmitting wireless commands to one or more remote network nodes;
a receiver for receiving responses from the one or more remote network nodes; and
a processor, coupled to the memory, the wireless transmitter and the receiver, for executing the processor-executable instructions that causes the network control device to:
transmit a first wireless command for any of the one or more remote network nodes in range of the network control device to respond to the network control device with a network identification code that identifies a local network to which each respective responding remote network node belongs;
receive a first response from a first remote network node in response to the command, the first response comprising a first network identification code;
remove the first network identification code from consideration as a self-assigned network identification code; and
select the self-assigned network identification code from a plurality of available network identification codes stored in the memory, excluding the first network identification code.