Patent Document ID: 20170105163
Application ID: 15292612
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of routing data between a source and a destination in a wireless mesh network (WMN), the method comprising: defining a main path between the source and destination in the WMN, wherein the main path comprises a plurality of nodes in the WMN, each node configured to receive and transmit data, wherein at least one node is associated with a multi-beam directional antenna (MBDA); defining one or more side paths of the main path, wherein the one or more side paths comprise a plurality of nodes in the WMN, each node configured to receive and transmit data; and routing data between the source and the destination through the main path and the one or more side paths, wherein at least a portion of the data being routed from the source to the destination diverges from the main path to at least one of the one or more side paths and converges from the at least one of the one or more side paths to the main path while being routed from the source to the destination.