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US 2014/0211608 A1Published application
Method for Healing ZigBee Network
AssigneeAAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
InventorYung Weng Fan
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Abstract
Disclosed is a ZigBee network healing method after the coordinator of the ZigBee network falls out and recovers subsequently. The method uses a router to determine whether a parent device of the router is the coordinator; if the router's parent is the coordinator, the router further determines a link status from the parent device; if the router determines the link status is not abnormal, the router activates a network recovery process.
Claims5
A method for healing a ZigBee network comprising the steps of:
- Step 10:
- providing the ZigBee network comprising a coordinator, a router and an end device, the router comprising a coordinator linkage validator, a network recovery module communicated with the coordinator, a ZigBee stack engine respectively communicatively connected with the coordinator linkage validator and the network recovery module, and a wireless transceiver communicatively connected with the ZigBee stack engine;
- Step 11:
- determining whether a parent device of the router is the coordinator by the coordinator linkage validator, for stopping working if the parent device of the router is not the coordinator;
- or for determining a link status from the parent device if the parent device of the router is the coordinator;
- Step 12:
- repeating step 11 if the coordinator linkage validator determines the link status is normal;
- Step 13:
- activating a network recovery process if the coordinator linkage validator determines the link status is abnormal.
6 more elements
A method for a healing ZigBee network comprising the steps of:
- Step 30:
- providing the ZigBee network comprising a coordinator, a plurality of routers and an end device, the plurality of the routers comprising a parent router having a coordinator linkage validator, a network recovery module communicatively with the coordinator, a ZigBee stack engine respectively communicatively connected with the coordinator linkage validator and the network recovery module, and a wireless transceiver communicatively connected with the ZigBee stack engine;
- Step 31:
- determining whether a parent device of the parent router is the coordinator by the coordinator linkage validator of the parent router, for stopping working if the parent device of the parent router is not the coordinator;
- or for determining a link status from the parent device if the parent device is the coordinator by the coordinator linkage validator;
- Step 32:
- repeating step 31 if the coordinator linkage validator 101 determines the link status is normal;
- Step 33:
- activating a network recovery process if the coordinator linkage validator 101 determines the link status is not abnormal by the routers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.