Patents by Inventor Silver Spring Networks, Inc.

Silver Spring Networks, Inc. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130223543
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting device failures in a network having nodes coupled to a central controller, in which a first of the nodes communicates with the central controller via a second of the nodes. When the second node determines that the first node has not transmitted a predetermined number of messages over a predefined number of time periods, the second node provides a failure alert to the central controller. The central controller records a failure alert received from the second node in a log. Based on a set of failure alerts received from a number of nodes recorded in the log, the central controller determines whether the first node has failed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130142083
    Abstract: A node residing within a wireless mesh network is configured to transmit a state transition message to a downstream node also residing within the wireless mesh network. The state transition message indicates a new operating state for the downstream node. Upon receipt of the state transition message, the downstream node may transition to the new operating state and then transmit an acknowledgement message back to the node that sent the state transition message. Alternatively, the downstream node may transmit the acknowledgement message back to the node that sent the state transition message first, and then transition to the new operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130042014
    Abstract: The functionality of communications standards and protocols that are application-layer specific are overlaid on an IP-based infrastructure, by employing an IP DNS server as the registration host for IP and other communications standards based and protocol based communications. Communication can occur at either the IP layer or the communications standards or protocol application layer. At the IP layer, a host application can interrogate network nodes. To extend this service to other communications standards or protocol communications, device registration and resolve services are implemented on the DNS server. Similar to the manner in which an IP-based service uses a native, IP-based DNS resolve request, a host can utilize a resolution request against the communications standards and protocol-enabled DNS server for standards and protocol application-layer interrogation of endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130036329
    Abstract: After power is restored to a node in a utility network, that node employs one or more of its neighboring nodes as proxies to route a message to a central control facility of the utility. The message contains information about the restored node, and possibly one or more of its neighbor nodes. This information may include reboot counters, the amount of time that the node was down, momentary outages or power fluctuations, and/or the time of power restoration. The node that creates and initially sends the message can be the restored node itself, or another node that recognizes when a restored node has recently come back online.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.