Patent ID: 9565620
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising steps of: entering, by a first node in a mesh network, an orphan mode; broadcasting, by the first node, an orphan notice over the mesh network; receiving, at a second node in the mesh network, the orphan notice; adding, by the second node, information regarding the first node from the orphan notice to a neighbor list, the information comprising a node ID of the first node specified in the orphan notice, a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement associated with the orphan notice from the first node, and an indication that the first node is in orphan mode; uploading, by the second node, the neighbor list to a host communicatively coupled to the mesh network; and receiving, at the first node, an assignment of one or more parent nodes in the mesh network from the host, the assignment of the one or more parent nodes determined based on a link score calculated for the first node and the second node from the information regarding the first node in the uploaded neighbor list.