Patent ID: 11930388
Assignee: BMIC LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A roofing system comprising:
a roof; and
a gateway of an integrated roofing mesh network node of the roof in communication with a mesh network of other nodes;
wherein the gateway comprises a processor configured to execute software instructions that cause the processor to:
receive a first set of data packets from the mesh network;
transmit a second set of data packets to the mesh network;
examine packet headers of the first set of data packets and the second set of data packets;
compare a source address and a destination address of each data packet in the first set of data packets and each data packet in the second set of data packets to an address associated with the gateway;
classify each data packet of the first set of data packets and the second set of data packets as a consumed data packet if the source address or the destination address matches the address associated with the gateway;
classify each data packet of the first set of data packets and the second set of data packets as a passthrough data packet if neither the source address nor the destination address matches the address associated with the gateway; and
determine an amount of mesh network bandwidth provided by a passthrough data capacity of the integrated roofing mesh network node, wherein the passthrough data capacity is based on at least one metric based on a payload of each data packet of the first set of data packets and the second set of data packets classified as a passthrough data packet.