Patent Document ID: 9167496
Application ID: 14286461
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system comprising: a wireless mesh network of nodes; wherein each of the nodes comprises a respective processing element enabled to execute wireless mesh networking functions; wherein the wireless mesh networking functions comprise a node of divergence function to determine when the node is a first node of divergence between a current best path and a previous best path, and a path dissemination function to conditionally distribute the current best path at least in response to a determination that the current best path has changed from the previous best path and a determination that the node is the first node of divergence; and wherein the first node of divergence has at least a first link, a second link, and a third link to respective others of the nodes, the current best path comprises the first link and the second link, and the previous best path comprises the first link and the third link.