METHODS AND DEVICES FOR HANDLING EXTENDED PROXY INFORMATION ITEM Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC H04L12/00 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: method comprises: detecting change in the connection between an external station (E1) and a proxy gateway (G1); generating, if change has been detected, a proxy information serial number (PISN) either (i) through increment of the existing proxy information serial number (EPISN) for a specific MAC address pair (SMACAP) by at least one, or (ii) using the serial number of a message of item encoded by a standard hybrid wireless mesh protocol, wherein said serial number is greater than the serial number of a previously created message or item, encoded by the standard hybrid wireless mesh protocol; generating an extended proxy information item (EPI) through: a first field (F1), which indicates addition or removal of a connection, presence of a third field (F3) and presence of a fifth field (F5); a second field (F2), which includes an external MAC address (EMACA); a third field (F3), which includes a proxy MAC address (PMACA), wherein presence of the third field (F3) is indicated by the first field (F1); a fourth field (F4), which includes the proxy information serial number (PISN); a fifth field (F5), which includes the proxy information life (PILIFE), wherein presence of the fifth field (F5) is indicated by the first field (F1).

EFFECT: faster data transmission in a network.

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