Patent ID: 8085799
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for routing a message packet which has been received, the method comprising the steps of: a computer determining a best routing path according to an Open Shorted Path First (OSPF), Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) or other routing function; the computer identifying a first multiplicity of routers in the best routing path, and determining if all routers of the first multiplicity of routers had, at increments in time during a predetermined prior time interval, respective signal strengths that exceeded a predetermined threshold; if so, the computer forwarding the message packet to a next hop in the best routing path, and if not, the computer identifying a second multiplicity of routers in a second best routing path determined according to the OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP or the other routing function, and the computer determining if all routers of the second multiplicity of routers had, during a predetermined prior interval, signal strengths that exceeded the predetermined threshold, and if so, forwarding the message packet to a next hop in the second best routing path.