Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Group acknowledgement message efficiency
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Application No.: US16780823Application Date: 2020-02-03
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Publication No.: US11689339B2Publication Date: 2023-06-27
- Inventor: Thomas Uhling , Keith Barnes
- Applicant: Itron, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Liberty Lake
- Assignee: Itron, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Itron, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Liberty Lake
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L5/00
- IPC: H04L5/00 ; H04L1/1607 ; H04W52/02 ; H04L1/00 ; H04W4/70

Abstract:
Techniques for acknowledging communications from multiple devices are described herein. For example, a device may broadcast a group acknowledgement message indicating that communications from multiple devices have been received by the device. Each acknowledgement in the group acknowledgement message may include a device identifier for a device that sent a communication (e.g., a Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the device, a hash of the MAC address of the device, etc.) and a communication identifier for the communication (e.g., a sequence number of the communication, a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) code for the communication, etc.).
Public/Granted literature
- US20200177350A1 Group Acknowledgement Message Efficiency Public/Granted day:2020-06-04
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