Section 15 · Patentable Innovations

Six claims we believe are genuinely novel

Six novel claims, scoped to be defensible against prior art.

A patent landscape analysis distinguishing AETHER from prior MANET, mesh, and decentralized communication systems.

AI-adaptive mesh routing with federated weight updates

Per-node PPO with privacy-preserving federated aggregation.

Energy-aware multi-objective forwarding

Battery, mobility, and trust in a single learned scoring function.

Self-evolving wire protocol via in-band schema negotiation

Signed capability vectors enable zero-downtime upgrades.

Hardware-anchored DID with PQ recovery

Enclave attestation + Shamir social recovery using post-quantum signatures.

Intelligent multi-radio supervisor

Joint scheduler that minimizes a unified energy-latency-reliability Lagrangian.

Reputation-weighted relay incentive market

Per-byte credits gated by neighbor attestations + PoUW.