Patent ID: 9143427
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of forwarding a packet according to a protocol, the packet being forwarded over a flow from an originator to an intended recipient in a sensor personal network including data communication sensor devices, said method comprising: assigning a compression value to a compression field in said packet, the compression value indicating that both the originator and the intended recipient are associated with a same sensor personal area network such that a source network identifier of the originator of said packet is equal to a destination network identifier of the intended recipient of said packet, assigning a label switching value to a destination addressing mode field in said packet, the label switching value indicating that a label switching principle must be applied to forward said packet by assigning a value to the destination addressing mode field that is undefined in a standard associated with the destination addressing mode field, the standard defining Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications for compatible interconnection of devices in a personal area network; using a source network identifier field of said packet for storing and retrieving a label value for application of said label switching principle based thereon even though the compression field indicates that the source network identifier is equal to the destination network identifier, the label value being determined at the data link layer in an open systems interconnection (OCI) model, the label value being used in conjunction with a switching table to determine a next hop of the flow; and forwarding the packet to the determined next hop of the flow towards the intended recipient.