Patent ID: 8116336

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing, by an electronics device, a unique IP address within a detected 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, the wireless home mesh network including a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes includes at least one stationary home electronics device as a stationary node, wherein establishing the unique IP address is performed automatically and includes generating a random value using a MAC address of a new node, a current time-stop, and a random seed value, adding a default IP prefix to the random value to form a candidate IP address, issuing a probe message that is broadcast to a wireless home mesh network, including a MAC address of the new node and the IP candidate selected by the new node, and receiving an IP address collision message if the candidate IP value matches an IP address of a node within the wireless home mesh network; and routing packets between the plurality of nodes of the wireless home mesh network.