Offline mesh messaging network with bluetooth broadcasting
Methods, systems, and storage media for relaying a message through an offline mesh network are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: relay messages by changing device names within a network; generate, at an initial node, an encoded message comprising a payload, an account identifier for the initial node, and an account identifier for the destination node; relay the encoded message through one or more intermediary nodes; determine, by each of the one or more intermediary nodes, whether device names in the vicinity are encoded messages and; in response to the determining, deliver the encoded message to the destination node; and cause display of the encoded message through the destination node.
1. A computer-implemented method for relaying a message through an offline mesh network, comprising:
generating, at an initial node, a message comprising a payload, an account identifier for the initial node, and an account identifier for a destination node, wherein the initial node is an offline device in an offline mesh network:
relaying the message through one or more intermediary nodes;
determining, by each of the one or more intermediary nodes, whether the destination node matches any of the one or more intermediary nodes;
in response to determining that the destination node does not match an intermediary node, broadcasting the message from the intermediary node using a device name associated with the intermediary node until one of the intermediary nodes determines that the account identifier for the destination node matches its own identifier;
in response to determining that the destination node matches the intermediary node, delivering the message to the destination node; and
causing display of the message through the destination node.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more intermediary nodes comprise wireless devices having wireless connectivity.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more intermediary nodes are within a certain range of each other.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the certain range is a range of bluetooth communication.
5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the certain range is less than twenty meters.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a forward path for relaying the message from the initial node to the destination node does not need to be the same as a return path for a return message from the destination node to the initial node.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the account identifier comprises account information of an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform for a user associated with the initial node.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the payload comprises contents of the message.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: encrypting the payload at the initial node.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising: decrypting the payload at the destination node.
11. A system configured for relaying a message through an offline mesh network, the system comprising:
one or more hardware processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: generate, at an initial node, a message comprising a payload, an account identifier for the initial node, and an account identifier for a destination node, wherein the initial node is an offline device in an offline mesh network:
relay the message through one or more intermediary nodes via bluetooth technology;
determine, by each of the one or more intermediary nodes, whether the destination node matches any of the one or more intermediary nodes;
in response to determining that the destination node does not match an intermediary node, broadcast the message from the intermediary node using a device name associated with the intermediary node until one of the intermediary nodes determines that the account identifier for the destination node matches its own identifier;
in response to determining that the destination node matches the intermediary node, deliver the message to the destination node; and
cause display of the message through the destination node.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more intermediary nodes comprise wireless devices having wireless connectivity.
13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more intermediary nodes are within a certain range of each other.
14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the certain range is a range of bluetooth communication.
15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the certain range is less than twenty meters.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein a forward path for relaying the message from the initial node to the destination node does not need to be the same as a return path for a return message from the destination node to the initial node.
17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the account identifier comprises account information of an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform for a user associated with the initial node.
18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the payload comprises contents of the message.
19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:
encrypt the payload at the initial node; and
decrypt the payload at the destination node.
20. A non-transient computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to perform a method for relaying a message through an offline mesh network, the method comprising:
generating, at an initial node, a message comprising a payload, an account identifier for the initial node, and an account identifier for a destination node, wherein the initial node is an offline device in an offline mesh network;
relaying the message through one or more intermediary nodes via bluetooth technology;
determining, by each of the one or more intermediary nodes, whether the destination node matches any of the one or more intermediary nodes;
in response to determining that the destination node does not match an intermediary node, broadcasting the message from the intermediary node using a device name associated with the intermediary node until one of the intermediary nodes determines that the account identifier for the destination node matches its own identifier;
in response to determining that the destination node matches the intermediary node, delivering the message to the destination node; and
causing display of the message through the destination node.