Patent ID: 11882434
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method, performed by a communication device, for determining a change in state information of a transmitter device from a transmitter address field of a received message, the communication device comprising a memory configured to store stored state information for a plurality of properties in a property database and a state key, the method comprising:
receiving a message from the transmitter device, the message including a transmitter address in a transmitter address field, wherein:
the transmitter address comprises received state indication data; and
the received state indication data is indicative of current state information for a plurality of properties in a property database of the transmitter device; and

determining, based on the received state indication data, whether the current state information is equal to the stored state information for the plurality of properties in the property database of the communication device.