WIRELESS SENSOR NODE EXECUTABLE CODE REQUEST FACILITATION METHOD AND APPARATUS
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- at a wireless sensor node;
requesting, responding to requests for, and maintaining executable code;
determining whether to forward a request for executable code that the wireless sensor node is itself not tasked with executing.
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Abstract
A wireless sensor node can request, responds to requests for, and maintain executable code (101), including executable code for which the wireless sensor node is itself tasked with executing. Upon receiving (102), however, a request for executable code that the wireless sensor node is not itself tasked with executing, one determines (103) whether to forward that request. This determination can be based upon any of a variety of decision-making criteria as may pertain to a given application setting (such as whether a different wireless sensor node is, in fact, already responding to this request for executable code, information regarding a number of hops to a known point of executable code injection as may be required to facilitate transport of the executable code from that source to a requesting wireless sensor node, and whether the wireless sensor node itself has locally cached the requested executable code).
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1. A method comprising:
at a wireless sensor node;
requesting, responding to requests for, and maintaining executable code;
determining whether to forward a request for executable code that the wireless sensor node is itself not tasked with executing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A wireless sensor node comprising:
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a memory having executable code stored therein;
a wireless transmitter;
a wireless receiver;
a processor operably coupled to the memory, the wireless receiver, and the wireless transmitter and being configured and arranged to;
request, respond to requests for, and maintain executable code;
determine whether to forward a request for executable code, which executable code the wireless sensor node is itself not tasked with executing. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method comprising:
at a first wireless sensor node;
determining a need for executable code to be executed by the first wireless sensor node;
transmitting a request for the executable code;
at a second wireless sensor node;
requesting, responding to requests for, and maintaining executable code which executable code the second wireless sensor node is tasked to execute;
receiving the request for executable code;
upon determining that the request for executable code comprises a request for executable code that the second wireless sensor node is not tasked to execute, determining whether to forward the request for executable code. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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