Patent ID: 11924738
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
receiving, from the first device, a second identifier of a fourth device of the mesh network, the fourth device and the first device connected via the third device;
determining that the third device is a single hop away from the first device and the fourth device is multiple hops away from the first device;
determining that the third device is to be reached via the first device and not the second device based at least in part on the third device being a single hop away from the first device;
determining that the fourth device is to be reached via the first device based at least in part on the fourth device being multiple hops away from the first device and connected with the first device via the third device; and
generating second association information between the first device, the third device, and the fourth device and indicating that the third device is to be reached exclusively via the first device and that the fourth device is to be reached via the third device.