Patent ID: 7506042

Claim:
In an ad hoc hierarchical network organizational method involving a network N, a proxy-networking practice including the establishing of a proxy coordinator node (PCo) by implementing the following algorithm which is designed to have, as a purpose, the minimizing of the number of proxy nodes needed to serve hidden nodes: 1. Let S PCo represent the set of Proxy Coordinator nodes; 2. For each node kεD i for some D i εT CCo , and k∉N, if there exists a node jεN, and jεS PCo , and j<=>k, then j is the PCo for node k; 3. For each node kεD i for some D i εT CCo , and k∉N, if there exists a node jεN, and j∉S PCo , and j<=>k, then j is designated the PCo for node k and added to the set of PCos, S PCo ; 4. For each node kεD i for some D i εT CCo , and k∉N, if there DOES NOT exist a node jεN, and j<=>k, then the hidden node k cannot be reached by any node in the network N and therefore has no PCo.