US 11,723,101 B1
Mobile ad-hoc network data concurrency
John A. Livingston, Oakton, VA (US); Michelle P. Cabahug, Washington, DC (US); and Christopher Matthew Foster, Fairfax, VA (US)
Assigned to Two Six Labs, LLC, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed by Two Six Labs, LLC, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/956,063.
Application 17/956,063 is a continuation of application No. 17/151,314, filed on Jan. 18, 2021, granted, now 11,490,440.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/18 (2018.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/18 (2018.02) [H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. In a mesh network of interconnected wireless nodes, each node independently managing a wireless connection to one or more other wireless nodes for transporting informational content, a method for stochastically refreshing and maintaining internode connections in a wireless mesh network, comprising:
periodically validating connections to other nodes in the mesh network based on an efficiency metric meeting a sufficient value and a completion of a handshake exchange for each node of a current topology of connected nodes for ensuring an efficiency of current connections;
removing, if a connection validation fails, the failed connection and adding a newly established connection from a set of available neighbor nodes;
if none of the current connections fails validation, detecting when one or more of the current connections have become stale, and if so, replacing a stochastically selected current connection with a newly established connection from the set of available neighbor nodes by
removing at least one of the current connections; and
adding a connection to another node by a perturbation operation for avoiding a passive dormancy of nodes which are either too distant for efficient communication or seldom active for information transmission.