Patent ID: 11968252
Assignee: ITRON, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 5, wherein determining that the quality check criterion has been met comprises at least one of:
determining that the second node device is operating in a long-range physical layer mode,
determining that a first quality score associated with the second node device is below a first threshold value,
determining that a packet success rate associated with receipt of the at least one block by the first node device is below a second threshold value,
determining that a data rate associated with the second node device is below a third threshold value,
determining that a number of blocks of the dataset that have been received from the second node device exceeds a fourth threshold value,
determining that a communication link with the second node device has been lost, or
determining that a quality check period has expired.