Patent ID: 7929908

Claim:
A power beam transmission system comprising: a plurality of source nodes, each source node of the plurality of source nodes being configured to generate a power beam usable by at least one user node; a control system to control operation of the plurality of source nodes; at least one user node; and a communication system for transmitting signals between the plurality of source nodes and the at least one user node; the at least one user node being configured to transmit user node messages via the communication system to at least one source node, the user node messages including one or more of a set of operative parameters; a power beam service request; and at least one acceptance message in response to at least one offer from one of the plurality of source nodes; each source node of the plurality of source nodes being configured upon receipt of a user node message to transmit an offer to provide power beam service in response to the power beam service request, wherein the offer to power beam service commits the source node to provide a power beam service corresponding to the set of operative parameters of the at least one user node and to deliver a power beam to the user node in response to receiving the at least one acceptance message from the user node; wherein the at least one user node is further configured to receive the power beam.