US 11,917,520 B2
Bluetooth mesh routing with subnets
Adam Kuenzi, Silverton, OR (US); Michael Lang, Oregon City, OR (US); and Randall Dow, Dallas, OR (US)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Appl. No. 16/972,376
Filed by Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/050055
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 4, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/050633, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/898,685, filed on Sep. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0303868 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 40/246 (2013.01) [H04W 40/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for communicating amongst a plurality of peripherals within a mesh network comprising a first subnet and a second subnet, the method comprising:
receiving an advertisement from one or more peripherals of the plurality of peripherals, the advertisement including a hop count, a subnet identifier, and a unique subnet device identifier, the subnet identifier indicating the first subnet or the second subnet and the unique subnet device identifier indicating a specific peripheral of the plurality of peripherals within the mesh network;
triggering a message send event;
determining a desired stream direction within the mesh network;
determining a desired subnet of the mesh network, the desired subnet being either the first subnet of the mesh network or the second subnet of the mesh network;
determining a destination peripheral of the one or more peripherals within the desired subnet and in the desired stream direction in response to the hop count, the subnet identifier, and the unique subnet device identifier;
connecting to the destination peripheral via wireless messaging; and
sending a message to the destination peripheral.