Patent ID: 11929935
Assignee: LANDIS+GYR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A time synchronization maintenance method, comprising:
transmitting, in a first beacon signal slot, a first time synchronization beacon signal from a first node of a mesh communication network;
determining, by a second node of the mesh communication network, a transmission time to transmit data in a transmission queue, wherein the second node is a same node as the first node or is another node of the mesh communication network;
determining, by the second node, an amount of time until commencement of a second beacon signal slot used to transmit a second time synchronization beacon signal from the second node or a second another node of the mesh communication network, wherein the amount of time is less than a time period between the first beacon signal slot and the second beacon signal slot; and
determining by the second node, that the transmission time amount is greater than the amount of time until commencement of the second beacon signal slot;
fragmenting, by the second node, the data into a first portion and a second portion, wherein a transmission time to transmit the first portion is less than the amount of time until commencement of the second beacon signal slot;
transmitting, by the second node, the first portion of the data;
pausing transmission, by the second node, of the data in the transmission queue until completion of the second beacon signal slot; and
transmitting, by the second node, the second portion of the data after the completion of the second beacon signal slot.