Transmission of aggregated mote-associated log data

• US 8,346,846 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2004
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2004
• 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: Jung, Edward K. Y., Tegreene, Clarence T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Etienne, Ario
• Assistant Examiner(s): Survillo, Oleg
• Application Number:
  US10/844,614
• Publication Number:
  US 20050254520A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,156 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/202, 707/602
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/00 Recording measured values
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Methods and/or systems relating to mote networks having mote-addressed content logs of a first set of motes. The mote-addressed content logs are aggregated and transmitted.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a mote log creation agent at a second mote of a first set of motes administered by a first network administrator from a first mote of the first set of motes over a mote network after the first and second motes are deployed in the mote network, the mote log creation agent including;

1) instructions to install at least a portion of the received mote log content creation agent on the second mote,

2) instructions that configure the second mote to receive at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs from at least one other mote of the first set of motes, and

3) instructions that configure the second mote to aggregate at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs received from the at least one other mote of the first set of motes to form an aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs; and

transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs to an aggregator configured to store (i) the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs obtained from motes administered by the first network administrator, and (ii) one or more mote-addressed content logs obtained from motes administered by a second administrator, and wherein at least one of the receiving or the transmitting is at least partially implemented using hardware.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

transmitting at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing log or a mote-addressed control log.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

transmitting at least a part of a mote-addressed routing log or a mote-addressed spatial log.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

transmitting one time stamp for each mote-addressed content log of the one or more mote-addressed content logs from the at least one other mote of the first set of motes to the second mote, wherein the time stamps indicate when data was collected from each of a plurality of devices coupled with the at least one other mote.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

effecting the transmission of at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of motes with a reporting entity.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

obtaining access to the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of motes.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

effecting the transmission of at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs to the aggregator in response to a schedule derived from a query, the schedule indicating multiple times which to transmit at least a part of the one or more mote-addressed content logs.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said effecting the transmission further comprises:

receiving the schedule from another mote.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said effecting the transmission further comprises:

deriving the schedule at least in part from at least one of an optimized query or a stored query.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

effecting the transmission of at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of motes to the aggregator in response to a query.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

decoding at least a part of the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of motes utilizing at least one of a public key or a private key.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein metadata pertaining to a first administrative domain indicates that the first set of motes are owned by the first network administrator, and wherein metadata pertaining to a second administrative domain indicates that the motes are administered by the second administrator.

13. A system comprising:

means for receiving a multi-mote log creation agent at a second mote of a first set of motes administered by a first network administrator from a first mote of the first set of motes over a mote network after the first and second motes are deployed in the mote network, the multi-mote log creation agent including;

1) instructions to install at least a portion of the received multi-mote log creation agent on the second mote,

2) instructions that configure the second mote to receive at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs from at least one other mote of the first set of motes, and

3) instructions that configure the second mote to aggregate at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs received from the at least one other mote of the first set of motes, forming an aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs; and

means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs to an aggregator configured to store (i) the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs from one or more motes of the first set, and (ii) one or more mote-addressed content logs from motes administered by a second administrator, wherein at least one of the means for receiving or the means for transmitting comprises electrical circuitry, and wherein at least one of the means for receiving and the means for transmitting is at least partially implemented using hardware.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs is further

for transmitting at least a part of at least one of a mote-addressed sensing log or a mote-addressed control log.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for transmitting is further

configured to transmit at least a part of a mote-addressed routing log indicating routing information or a mote-addressed spatial log indicating spatial log information of multiple motes.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs is further

for transmitting at least one time stamp for each of the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of administered motes, wherein the time stamps indicate when data was collected from each of a plurality of devices coupled with the at least one other mote.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

a reporting entity obtaining access to the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of administered motes.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs is further

for effecting the transmitting in response to a schedule, the schedule indicating multiple times which to transmit at least a part of the one or more mote-addressed content logs.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein said effecting the transmitting in response to a schedule further comprises:

receiving the schedule from another mote.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein said effecting the transmitting in response to a schedule further comprises:

deriving the schedule.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein said effecting the transmitting in response to a schedule further comprises:

deriving the schedule at least in part from at least one of an optimized query or a stored query.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

a reporting entity effecting the transmitting in response to a query from another mote.

23. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs is further

for decoding at least a part of the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of administered motes utilizing at least one of a public key or a private key.

24. A system comprising:

means for receiving a multi-mote log creation agent at a second mote of the first set of motes administered by a first network administrator from a first mote of the first set of motes over a mote network after the first and second motes are deployed in the mote network, the multi-mote log creation agent including;

1) instructions to install at least a portion of the received multi-mote log creation agent on the second mote,

2) instructions that configure the second mote to receive at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs from at least one other mote of the first set of motes, and

3) instructions that configure the second mote to aggregate at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs received from the at least one other mote of the first set of motes, forming an aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs; and

means for transmitting at least a part of the aggregated one or more mote-addressed content logs to an aggregator configured to store (i) the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs, and (ii) one or more mote-addressed content logs from a second set of motes administered by a second administrator, said means for transmitting being disposed proximate to said second mote, and wherein at least one of the means for receiving or the means for transmitting is at least partially implemented using hardware.

25. A system comprising:

at least one mote comprising a device formed in a substrate having at least two of a semi-autonomous computing functionality, a communication functionality, or a sensing functionality;

at least one receiving entity resident in the at least one mote, said at least one receiving entity configured to receive a multi-mote log creation agent from another mote of a first set of motes administered by a first network administrator over a mote network after the at least one mote and the another mote are deployed in the mote network, the multi-mote log creation agent including;

1) instructions to install at least a portion of the received multi-mote log creation agent on the at least one mote,

2) instructions that configure the at least one mote to receive at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs from other motes of the first set of motes, and

3) instructions that configure the at least one mote to aggregate at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs received from the other motes of the first set of motes, forming an aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs; and

at least one multi-mote reporting entity resident in said at least one mote, said at least one multi-mote reporting entity configured to report at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs stored in the at least one mote to an aggregator configured to store (i) the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs from the first set of motes, and (ii) one or more mote-addressed content logs from motes administered by a second administrator.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein said aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs further comprises:

multiple entries including one of sensing information or control information and one of routing information or spatial information of a mote-appropriate device.

27. The system of claim 25, further comprising:

means, disposed in each of the other motes, for transmitting at least one of sensing information, control information, routing information, or spatial information.

28. The system of claim 25, wherein said at least one mote comprises:

at least one of a processor, a memory, or a communications device formed from a substrate.

29. The system as recited in claim 25, wherein the aggregator aggregates the received aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs of the first set of motes administered by the first network administrator with the one or more mote-addressed content logs from motes administered by the second network administrator.