Patent ID: 8732338
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless mesh network server operable to: receive a message to one or more mesh network nodes from a client external to the mesh network, the message comprising an alias, wherein the alias comprises a network node address in a first network type different from a mesh network type, the alias's network node address associated with the one or more mesh network nodes; identify the one or more receiving mesh network nodes by the received message alias via an alias table, the alias table associating the alias comprising a network node address in the first network type different from the mesh network type with one or more mesh network nodes; and forward the received message to the one or more mesh network nodes identified by the alias, wherein the server comprises a computerized system, the server operable to aggregate one or more reply messages from the one or more mesh network nodes.