US 11876855 B2 / Jan 16, 2024

Discoverability and resource management of mesh-networked mobile nodes

The nodes of a squad of nodes include a coordinating node and a set of worker nodes for sharing computational resources to perform resource intensive tasks. To coordinate the sharing of resources, the coordinating node requests a report of resources status and current utilization from each worker node. The report of resource status includes at least a battery level of a corresponding worker node. The coordinating node receives a work request from a requesting worker node, and identifies a subset of worker nodes for executing the work request based on at least the battery level of each worker node and the current utilization of each worker node. The coordinating node then sends the list of identified worker nodes to the requesting worker node to allow the requesting worker node to divide the tasks for completing the work request among the worker nodes included in the list of identified worker nodes.