A wireless communications node, being included in a multi-hop route starting from a source node and terminating at a destination node, has a receiving part configured to receive signals including transmission data prepared by the source node and transferring the received signals to a succeeding node, a preparing part configured to prepare source node data including at least identification data of the source node based on a predetermined portion of the transmission data, and a reporting part configured to report the source node data and relay data to a management node that manages cost data of plural nodes included in an ad hoc network. The relay data include the cost data and station data including at least identification data of the wireless communications node.

Claims

8 · 2 independent · depth 2

8 granted claims

›1.independentA wireless communications node included in a multi-hop route from a source node to a destination node, the wireless communications node comprising:na …+6

›2.↳ 1The wireless communications node as claimed in claim 1, wherein in a case where a predetermined amount of ticket data is not included in the received …d2

›3.↳ 1The wireless communications node as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reporting part is configured to regularly report the relay data.d2

›4.↳ 1The wireless communications node as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:nan encrypting part configured to encrypt the relay data;wherein the report…d2

›5.↳ 1The wireless communications node as claimed in claim 1, wherein the station data include one or more of data indicating a relay time, identification d…d2

›6.↳ 1The wireless communications node as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cost data include one or more data indicating a transfer time, a data length, a tr…d2

›7.↳ 1The wireless communications node as claimed in claim 1, wherein the source node data include one or more data indicating a data length, a transmission…d2

›8.independentA method used by a wireless communications node included in a multi-hop route from a source node to a destination node, the method comprising:nreceivi…

Classifications

4 codes

IPC · International Patent Classification

Section H — Electricity

H04W4/00

USPC · US Patent Classification

370/328455/406370/392

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Albert T Chou

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Type	Document	Date
related publication	US 20100150052 A1	17 Jun 2010

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