Patent ID: 7298710

Claim:
A method for routing communication signals in a network organized into layers of sub-networks, comprising: receiving in a sub-network, a communication signal from another sub-network or a child device, wherein each sub-network of each layer in the network is comprised of at least one processing node, and wherein the communication signal is received by one of the at least one processing node in the sub-network; selecting a carrier signal based on a destination address of the communication signal; outputting the carrier signal to one of an above sub-network, a below sub-network, a same sub-network, or a child device; extracting a first portion address from the destination address; selecting a carrier signal corresponding to a first processing node of an above sub-network if the first portion address does not include an address of the first processing node of the above sub-network; outputting the carrier signal to the first processing node; extracting a second portion address from the destination address if the first portion address includes the address of the first processing node; selecting a carrier signal having a frequency that corresponds to a third processing node of a same sub-network if the second portion address does not correspond to an address of a current processing node; modulating the carrier signal with the communication signal; and outputting the modulated carrier signal to the third processing node.