DISTRIBUTED CONTEXT-SHARING NETWORKS

• US 20200137540A1
• Filed: 12/30/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Theo Kanter
• Original Assignee: Theo Kanter
• Inventors: Kanter, Theo
• Granted Patent: US 11,102,635 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for network management is disclosed and includes broadcasting, from a first sensored wireless transceiver, an availability to accept data from other sensored wireless transceivers; receiving, from one or more other sensored wireless transceivers, requests to subscribe to provide sensor data to the first sensored wireless transceiver; subsequently receiving data that indicates sensor values from the one of more other sensored wireless transceivers; aggregating the data that indicates sensor values; and transmitting the aggregated data to a central service through the Internet.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for network management, the method comprising:

broadcasting, from a first sensored wireless transceiver, an availability to accept data from other sensored wireless transceivers;

receiving, from one or more other sensored wireless transceivers, requests to subscribe to provide sensor data to the first sensored wireless transceiver;

subsequently receiving data that indicates sensor values from the one of more other sensored wireless transceivers;

aggregating the data that indicates sensor values; and

transmitting the aggregated data to a central service through the Internet.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the data is aggregated in response to receiving a request from the central service, wherein the request identifies a particular parameter to which the data is to be directed.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the first sensored wireless transceiver queries an internal database having a sensor type field to identify sensor readings that are responsive to the request.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the sensor type field is hashed on the first sensored wireless transceiver.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first sensored wireless transceiver and the one or more other sensored wireless transceivers communicate by way of a network that is layered over an underlying local area network.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining at the first sensored wireless transceiver, a degree of proximity of each of the one or more other sensored wireless transceiver to the first sensored wireless transceiver, and

determining whether to aggregated data from each of the one or more other sensored wireless transceivers based on a determined level of proximity between the transceivers.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the determined level of proximity includes, as a factor, a determined geographic proximity between the first sensored transceiver and particular ones of the one or more other sensored transceivers.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first sensored wireless transceiver and the one or more other sensored wireless transceivers each represented nodes in their storage as first-class objects in an entity-relationship model.

9. One or more devices having tangible, non-transient machine-readable media having stored thereon, instructions that when executed perform operations comprising:

broadcasting, from a first sensored wireless transceiver, an availability to accept data from other sensored wireless transceivers;

receiving, from one or more other sensored wireless transceivers, requests to subscribe to provide sensor data to the first sensored wireless transceiver;

subsequently receiving data that indicates sensor values from the one of more other sensored wireless transceivers;

aggregating the data that indicates sensor values; and

transmitting the aggregated data to a central service through the Internet.

10. The one or more devices of claim 9, wherein the data is aggregated in response to receiving a request from the central service, wherein the request identifies a particular parameter to which the data is to be directed.

11. The one or more devices of claim 10, wherein the first sensored wireless transceiver queries an internal database having a sensor type field to identify sensor readings that are responsive to the request.

12. The one or more devices of claim 11, wherein the sensor type field is hashed on the first sensored wireless transceiver.

13. The one or more devices of claim 9, wherein the first sensored wireless transceiver and the one or more other sensored wireless transceivers communicate by way of a network that is layered over an underlying local area network.

14. The one or more devices of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining at the first sensored wireless transceiver, a degree of proximity of each of the one or more other sensored wireless transceiver to the first sensored wireless transceiver, and

determining whether to aggregated data from each of the one or more other sensored wireless transceivers based on a determined level of proximity between the transceivers.

15. The one or more devices of claim 14, wherein the determined level of proximity includes, as a factor, a determined geographic proximity between the first sensored transceiver and particular ones of the one or more other sensored transceivers.

16. The one or more devices of claim 9, wherein the first sensored wireless transceiver and the one or more other sensored wireless transceivers each represented nodes in their storage as first-class objects in an entity-relationship model.