Mesh network connecting wireless routers
View Patent ↗A communication routing arrangement includes two or more wireless routers coupled to a communication network, and a user device adapted to couple with the communication network through a communication path including at least one of the two or more wireless routers. The communication path between the user device and the communication network is selected based on available resources of the two or more wireless routers.
1. A communication routing system, comprising:
two or more wireless routers coupled to a communication network;
a user device configured to couple with the communication network through a communication path including at least one of the two or more wireless routers;
a multiplexer coupled to the two or more wireless routers and positioned in the communication path between the two or more wireless routers and the user device, wherein the two or more wireless routers are not in direct communication with each other and the multiplexer is configured to communicate with either one of the two or more wireless routers at a time or a plurality of the two or more wireless routers simultaneously such that the communication path between the user device and the communication network is selected based on available resources of the two or more wireless routers, wherein the multiplexer is configured to select one or more wireless routers of the two or more wireless routers for uploading to the communication network and another one or more wireless routers of the two or more wireless routers for downloading to the user device and wherein the two or more wireless routers are associated with one or more networks.
2. The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers are arranged in a mesh network.
3. The communication routing arrangement of claim 2 , wherein the two or more wireless routers communicate with each other in a master/slave relationship.
4. The communication routing arrangement of claim 3 , wherein the master/slave relationship is predetermined.
5. The communication routing arrangement of claim 3 , wherein the master/slave relationship is hierarchical.
6. The communication routing arrangement of claim 3 , wherein the master/slave relationship is determined in real time.
7. The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the available resources include available bandwidth and/or signal strength.
8. The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the multiplexer is adapted to select the communication path.
9. The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the one or more networks include an Ethernet or Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) network.
10. The communication routing system of claim 1 , wherein the user device communicates to the communication network through the plurality of the two or more wireless routers simultaneously combining resources of the plurality of the two or more wireless routers thus increasing available bandwidth between the user device and the communication network.
11. The communication routing system of claim 1 , wherein resources of the two or more wireless routers are combined to provide greater capacity to the user device.