Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Powerline communication network system having device that performs a joining process
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Application No.: US15013062Application Date: 2016-02-02
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Publication No.: US09615315B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Kumaran Vijayasankar , Ramanuja Vedantham , Robert Liang
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Kenneth Liu; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H04W48/10
- IPC: H04W48/10 ; H04W4/00 ; H04W24/04 ; H04L12/24 ; H04W48/00 ; H04B3/54 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W48/16

Abstract:
Disclosed embodiments include a system having one or more member devices coupled to a network and a power line communication (PLC) device. The PLC device is configured to identify available bootstrapping agents that correspond to the one or more member devices, each available bootstrapping agent having a corresponding personal area network (PAN) identifier, identify a target network having a PAN identifier to join, select a target bootstrapping agent from available bootstrapping agents associated with the target PAN identifier to use for a join process with the target network, attempt to join the target network using the target bootstrapping agent, and when the attempt to join is successful, transmit and receive PLC signals over at least one power line associated with the target network using a particular frequency band and a modulation scheme.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160150463A1 BOOTSTRAPPING SERVER FOR JOINING PROCESS IN POWERLINE COMMUNICATION (PLC) NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2016-05-26
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