Patent ID: 9602227
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04H,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A wireless mesh network gateway, comprising: one or more transceivers for communicating with other devices of a wireless mesh network; a processor, the processor operative to: obtain broadcast listening information of a broadcast listening access node, wherein the broadcast listening access node is downstream from the gateway, and the broadcast listening access node is connected to a broadcast listening device, and wherein the broadcast listening information includes an identifier of the broadcast listening access node, and a broadcast identifier of the broadcast listening device; obtain broadcast sourcing information of a broadcast sourcing access node, wherein the broadcast sourcing access node is downstream from the gateway, and the broadcast sourcing access node is connected a broadcast sourcing device, and wherein the broadcast sourcing information includes an identifier of the broadcast sourcing access node, and a broadcast identifier of the broadcast sourcing device; provide the broadcast listening information of the broadcast listening access node to the broadcast sourcing access node upon determining the broadcast identifier of the broadcast sourcing device matches the broadcast identifier of the broadcast listening device; wherein the wireless mesh network gateway is a part of a first cluster; and wherein the sourcing access node receives broadcast packets from the broadcast sourcing device connected to the broadcast sourcing access node, and the broadcast sourcing access node encapsulates the broadcast packets into unicast packets, and unicast transmits the unicast packets through the wireless mesh network gateway of the first cluster and a second gateway of a second cluster of the mesh network to a broadcast listening access node of the second cluster after determining the broadcast identifier of the broadcast sourcing device matches a broadcast identifier of the broadcast listening device of the second cluster.