Frequency reuse techniques in mote-appropriate networks

• US 20050289275A1
• Filed: 06/25/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alarm.com Inc. (Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Tegreene, Clarence T., Jung, Edward K.Y.
• Granted Patent: US 7,599,696 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/305
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Mote appropriate networks employing multiple frequencies, such as those utilized in frequency reuse techniques.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency; and

a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency, said second-administered set of motes proximate to said first-administered set of motes.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a first aggregation of content logs in association with said first-administered set of motes having the first-administered set of motes, said first aggregation of content logs resident within electrical circuitry.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said first aggregation of content logs in association with said first-administered set of motes having the first-administered set of motes further comprises:

a first antenna operably tuned to the first defined carrier frequency operably coupled with said first aggregation of content logs.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second aggregation of content logs in association with said second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency, said second aggregation of content logs resident within electrical circuitry.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said second aggregation of content logs in association with said second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

a second antenna operably tuned to said second defined carrier frequency and operably coupled with said second aggregation of content logs.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

a reused frequency.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

a reused frequency.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said system further comprises:

a federated content log in association with at least one of said first-administered set of motes having the first-administered set of motes or said second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

9. A method comprising:

acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency; and

acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein said acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein said acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

17. The method of claim 9, wherein said acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein said receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

22. The method of claim 9, wherein said acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

23. The method of claim 9, wherein said acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

24. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

creating the federated log from at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

creating the federated log from at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log or a mote-addressed routing/spatial log of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

creating the federated log from at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

28. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

creating the federated log from at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log or a mote-addressed routing/spatial log of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

29. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

generating the federated log to have one or more entries noting one or more respective administrative domains of one or more content log entries.

30. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

generating the federated log to have access information to one or more content logs for an administered content log.

31. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

generating the federated log to have information pertaining to a currency of at least one entry of an administered content log.

32. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

generating the federated log to have information pertaining to an expiration of at least one entry of an administered content log.

33. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

generating the federated log to have metadata pertaining to an administrative domain, wherein the metadata includes at least one of an ownership indicator, an access right indicator, a log refresh indicator, or a predefined policy indicator.

34. The method of claim 24, wherein said creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

generating the federated log to have an administrative domain-specific query string generated for or supplied by an administrative domain to produce an updated content log for that domain.

35. The method of claim 9, wherein at least one of the first defined carrier frequency or the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

a reused frequency.

36. A system comprising:

means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency; and

means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency.

37. The system of claim 36, wherein said means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

38. The system of claim 37, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

39. The system of claim 37, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

40. The system of claim 37, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

41. The system of claim 37, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

42. The system of claim 36, wherein said means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

43. The system of claim 36, wherein said means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a first-administered set of motes having a first defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a reporting entity at a mote of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

44. The system of claim 36, wherein said means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

45. The system of claim 44, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

46. The system of claim 44, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from at least one aggregation of one or more logs.

47. The system of claim 44, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

48. The system of claim 44, wherein said means for receiving at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a multi-mote reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

49. The system of claim 36, wherein said means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log from a reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

50. The system of claim 36, wherein said means for acquiring at least a part of one or more content logs from a second-administered set of motes having a second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for receiving at least a part of a mote-addressed routing/spatial log from a reporting entity at a mote of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

51. The system of claim 36, further comprising:

means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

52. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for creating the federated log from at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

53. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for creating the federated log from at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log or a mote-addressed routing/spatial log of the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency.

54. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for creating the federated log from at least a part of one or more multi-mote content logs of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

55. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for creating the federated log from at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing/control log or a mote-addressed routing/spatial log of the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency.

56. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for generating the federated log to have one or more entries noting one or more respective administrative domains of one or more content log entries.

57. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for generating the federated log to have access information to one or more content logs for an administered content log.

58. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for generating the federated log to have information pertaining to a currency of at least one entry of an administered content log.

59. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for generating the federated log to have information pertaining to an expiration of at least one entry of an administered content log.

60. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for generating the federated log to have metadata pertaining to an administrative domain, wherein the metadata includes at least one of an ownership indicator, an access right indicator, a log refresh indicator, or a predefined policy indicator.

61. The system of claim 51, wherein said means for creating a federated log having the at least a part of one or more content logs from the first-administered set of motes having the first defined carrier frequency and the at least a part of one or more content logs from the second-administered set of motes having the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

means for generating the federated log to have an administrative domain-specific query string generated for or supplied by an administrative domain to produce an updated content log for that domain.

62. The system of claim 36, wherein at least one of the first defined carrier frequency or the second defined carrier frequency further comprises:

a reused frequency.