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AssigneeRicochet Networks, Inc.
InventorsRodrigo Garces, Cuong-Thinh Nguyen, William San Filippo, III
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In a wireless communication system having sometimes mobile subscriber units and a plurality of fixed network devices located at cell sites, a multimode acquisition protocol is provided at each subscriber unit which first senses whether the subscriber unit is static or mobile from the nature and quality of the communication links with nearby network devices and then enables an acquisition protocol suited to either static mode or mobile mode. In a specific embodiment, the protocol initiates procedures to change acquisition mode from static to mobile upon failure of the subscriber unit to sense three consecutive scheduled polling packets sent by a linked network device or upon loss of communication with any locally-known network device or upon failure to transmit 25 consecutive data packets. In such case, the procedure is initiated to determine whether it is appropriate to switch to a mobile mode for purposes of acquisition.
In a wireless communication system having a plurality of communication devices including mobile subscriber units within a single wireless network that may be in either static or mobile modes when operating within the single network and a plurality of fixed network devices located at cell sites for each communicating with both static and mobile subscriber units within the single network, a method for acquiring and managing a plurality of communication modes at each subscriber unit comprising:
In a network communication system having subscriber units within the single network that may be either static or mobile when operating within the single network and a plurality of fixed network devices located at cell sites within the single network, with at least some of the network devices for communicating with both static and mobile subscriber units, a method for acquiring and managing a plurality of communication modes at each subscriber unit comprising:
In a wireless network communication system having subscriber units within a single wireless network that may be either static or mobile when operating within the single network and a plurality of fixed network devices located at cell sites, with the network devices in a single network and for each communicating with both static and mobile subscriber units, a method for acquiring and managing a plurality of communication modes at each subscriber unit comprising:
In a wireless mesh network communication system for a single wireless network having subscriber units, some of which are at least at times mobile, and having a plurality of fixed network devices located at cell sites, with at least some of the network devices for communicating with both static and mobile subscriber units operating within the single network, an acquisition protocol for use in communicating between the subscriber units and the fixed network devices, comprising:
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