Mesh Network Message Groups for Secure, Low-Overhead Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
In mesh networks, the distribution of sensitive information is challenging due to the risk of unintended message transmission to unauthorized nodes, and managing group membership for message delivery incurs additional communication overhead, which can degrade network performance and battery life.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a messaging application on nodes to manage message groups by verifying agent permissions, adding agents to appropriate groups, and transmitting composite messages encrypted with cryptographic keys, reducing unnecessary communication and conserving bandwidth and power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If message groups are implemented to control message distribution, then security against unintended transmission is improved, but communication overhead increases due to membership management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the mesh network into multiple message groups, where each group contains specific subsets of nodes. This segmentation allows selective message distribution to only authorized nodes within each group, preventing unintended transmission to unauthorized nodes while reducing the communication overhead compared to broadcasting to all nodes in the entire network.
2Loss of energy
If composite messages are transmitted to reduce communication overhead, then bandwidth efficiency is improved, but message complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual messages into a single composite message that can be transmitted together across the mesh network. This combining approach improves bandwidth efficiency by reducing the total number of transmissions required, while the system manages the increased message complexity through structured composite message formatting and processing mechanisms.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach ensures secure and efficient message transmission within authorized groups, minimizing overhead and improving network reliability while conserving resources.
Implementation Method 1
the first messaging application encrypts the content for the first message with a first cryptographic key that is associated with the first message group to generate a first encrypted message
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AI summary
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for messaging among message groups associated with agents executing on nodes of a mesh network. A messaging application executing on a node of the mesh network receives a request from an agent executing on the first node to join a message group; verifies that a policy permits the agent to join the message group; adds the agent to the message group; receives, from the agent, content for a message for the message group; and transmits the message to a second messaging application of a second node of the mesh network for delivery to an agent that is executing on the second node and that is included in the message group. In various embodiments, the messaging application receives, from another node of the mesh network, a second message for the message group, and delivers content from the second message to the agent.