Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

Meshnetworks, Inc.

118Patents
45Active
118Granted
49Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 22, 2001 → Jul 11, 2007 · 45 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6807165B2 Time division protocol for an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio network having coordinating channel access to shared parallel data channels with separate reservation channel Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 235 Expired
US7126951B2 System and method for identifying the floor number where a firefighter in need of help is located using received signal strength indicator and signal propagation time Electricity 190 Expired
US7206294B2 Movable access points and repeaters for minimizing coverage and capacity constraints in a wireless communications network and a method for using the same Electricity 155 Expired
US6580981B1 System and method for providing wireless telematics store and forward messaging for peer-to-peer and peer-to-peer-to-infrastructure a communication network Electricity 140 Expired
US6961575B2 Ad Hoc peer-to-peer mobile radio access system interfaced to the PSTN and cellular networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 116 Expired
US6754188B1 System and method for enabling a node in an ad-hoc packet-switched wireless communications network to route packets based on packet content Electricity 115 Expired
US6728232B2 System and method for auto-configuration and discovery of IP to MAC address mapping and gateway presence in wireless peer-to-peer ad-hoc routing networks Electricity 111 Expired
US7167715B2 System and method for determining relative positioning in AD-HOC networks Physics 92 Expired
US6873839B2 Prioritized-routing for an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer, mobile radio access system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 80 Expired
US7251238B2 System and method for routing data between different types of nodes in a wireless network Electricity 79 Expired
US7075890B2 System and method to provide fairness and service differentation in ad-hoc networks Electricity 78 Expired
US7072650B2 Ad hoc peer-to-peer mobile radio access system interfaced to the PSTN and cellular networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Expired
US6937602B2 System and method for providing a congestion optimized address resolution protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks Electricity 65 Expired
US6744766B2 Hybrid ARQ for a wireless Ad-Hoc network and a method for using the same Electricity 62 Expired
US6728545B1 System and method for computing the location of a mobile terminal in a wireless communications network Physics 61 Expired
US7072323B2 System and method for performing soft handoff in a wireless data network Electricity 57 Expired
US7403492B2 Method to support multicast routing in multi-hop wireless networks Electricity 54 Active
US6768730B1 System and method for efficiently performing two-way ranging to determine the location of a wireless node in a communications network Electricity 53 Expired
US7203497B2 System and method for accurately computing the position of wireless devices inside high-rise buildings Electricity 52 Expired
US7072432B2 System and method for correcting the clock drift and maintaining the synchronization of low quality clocks in wireless networks Electricity 50 Expired
US6771666B2 System and method for trans-medium address resolution on an ad-hoc network with at least one highly disconnected medium having multiple access points to other media Electricity 48 Expired
US6970444B2 System and method for self propagating information in ad-hoc peer-to-peer networks Electricity 47 Expired
US7171220B2 System and method for analyzing the precision of geo-location services in a wireless network terminal Electricity 46 Expired
US7606187B2 System and method to support multicast routing in large scale wireless mesh networks Electricity 44 Active
US7280555B2 System and method employing algorithms and protocols for optimizing carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols in wireless networks Electricity 43 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.