Patent ID: 8255469

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying a community of a plurality of wireless nodes using a community identifier corresponding to the community by broadcasting a community search message over a wireless ad-hoc mesh network, wherein the community is active among one or more neighboring wireless nodes over the ad-hoc mesh network, and the community search message propagates to all devices that are in proximity of the community whether the devices belong to the community or not; and updating a list of active communities based on the identification, wherein the community is part of a connectionless low-power awareness information network, the community search message searches for the presence of multiple communities by including a set of pseudonym, the community search message is transmitted to the neighboring nodes in connectionless manner without a need to send any prior control signals or messages to the neighboring nodes before the transmission and without knowledge of the addresses of the neighboring nodes, and reception and processing of the community search message does not require any prior knowledge about a sending node.