US 12,137,376 B2
Wireless relay device, gateway device, and multi-hop network system
Takaomi Murakami, Kamakura Kanagawa (JP); Miyuki Ogura, Tokyo (JP); Tatsuma Hirano, Kawasaki Kanagawa (JP); and Toshihisa Nabetani, Kawasaki Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/686,000.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-149335 (JP), filed on Sep. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0083380 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 28/24 (2009.01); H04W 68/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/18 (2013.01) [H04W 28/24 (2013.01); H04W 68/06 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless relay device in a multi-hop network including at least a gateway device, the wireless relay device comprising:
a determination unit configured to determine whether a wireless device connected to the wireless relay device supports a routing protocol of the multi-hop network;
a notification unit configured to notify the gateway device or another wireless relay device in the multi-hop network of information for identifying the wireless device when the determination unit determines that the wireless device does not support the routing protocol; and
a distribution unit configured to distribute a network address of the wireless relay device to the wireless device,
wherein the determination unit is configured to determine whether the wireless device supports the routing protocol based on a comparison between the network address and an address of the wireless device.