Patent ID: 7961674

Claim:
A method comprising: discovering a wireless home mesh network in response to activation of an electronics device; and joining, by the electronics device, the wireless home mesh network to establish the electronics device as one of a mobile node and a stationary node of the wireless home mesh network, wherein the wireless home mesh network includes at least one stationary home electronics device as a stationary node of the wireless home mesh network, wherein the electronics device wirelessly communicates with the stationary node of the wireless home mesh network, wherein joining comprises scanning one or more channels to detect the presence of available wireless networks according to detected wireless beacons, detecting at least one ad hoc network from the detected wireless networks, preparing proprietary challenge text, issuing a neighbor discovery request to the detected mesh network, the neighbor discovery request includes a tier type of the electronic device and the proprietary challenge text including a private key embedded within the electronic device, if the proprietary challenge text matches an expected value, receiving a neighbor response that includes a MAC address of a neighbor node, a tier type of the neighbor node and a public key embedded with the neighbor node, wherein the tier type is one of (i) a first tier node being a gateway node that establishes and controls access to an external network, (ii) a second tier node being a stationary wireless node that interconnects a plurality of stationary wireless nodes, and (iii) a third tier node being one of a plurality of mobile wireless nodes that are linked to the second tier node, and identifying the ad hoc network as a wireless home mesh network if a discovery response message is received from a node of the wireless home mesh network.