# US 11,029,937 B2 · Technologies for performing energy efficient software distribution > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,029,937 B2 - Document ID: US11029937B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/421,878 - Filed: 2019-05-24 - Published: 2019-09-19 - Granted: 2021-06-08 - Earliest claimed: 2017-03-23 - Assignees: Intel Corporation - Applicants: Intel Corporation - Inventors: Simon Hunt; Ned M. Smith; Barry E. Huntley; Rita H. Wouhaybi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11029937B2 ## CPC - G06F 8/65: Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) - G06F 9/5094: {where the allocation takes into account power or heat criteria (power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206)} - G06F 9/54: Interprogram communication - 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 - H04L 67/34: {involving the movement of software or configuration parameters (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416)} - H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] - H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication - Y02D 10/00: Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management - Y02D 30/70: in wireless communication networks - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - Y02D: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE ## Abstract Technologies for performing energy efficient software distribution include a mesh node. The mesh node is to obtain fingerprint data of a plurality of other mesh nodes in a network. The mesh node is also to determine corresponding characteristics of the mesh nodes from the obtained fingerprint data, including an energy status of each of the mesh nodes. The mesh node is also to perform an analysis of a software update, determine, as a function of the analysis of the software update, one or more target mesh nodes of the plurality of mesh nodes for the software update, and determine a path through the mesh nodes to the one or more target mesh nodes as a function of the fingerprint data. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A publisher server for providing a software update, the publisher server comprising: a software update sender circuitry to generate data indicative of characteristics of a software update, wherein the characteristics include a criticality of the software update, wherein to generate data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises a generate a publication Bloom value indicative of the characteristics, wherein the software update is provided to a first mesh node having a first Bloom filter indicative of a predefined likelihood that the mesh node accepts the software update, and wherein the software update is provided to a second mesh node having a second Bloom filter that matches a publication Bloom values of the software update; and a network communicator circuitry to provide the software update to a mesh node for distribution through a network. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The publisher server of claim 1, wherein to generate data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises to generate data indicative of at least one of a version of the software update. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The publisher server of claim 1, wherein to generate data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises to generate data indicative of a mesh node type associated with the software update. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The publisher server of claim 1, wherein to generate data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises to generate data indicative of one or more sensors to which the software update pertains. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The publisher server of claim 1, wherein the software update is provided to a third mesh node having a third Bloom filter that is primarily set to ones. ### Claim 6 A method for providing a software update, the method comprising: generating, by a publisher server, data indicative of characteristics of a software update, wherein the characteristics include a criticality of the software update, wherein to generate data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises a generate a publication Bloom value indicative of the characteristics, wherein the software update is provided to a first mesh node having a first Bloom filter indicative of a predefined likelihood that the mesh node accepts the software update, and wherein the software update is provided to a second mesh node having a second Bloom filter that matches a publication Bloom values of the software update; and providing, by the publisher server, the software update to a mesh node for distribution through a network. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein generating data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises generating data indicative of at least one of a version of the software update, a mesh node type associated with the software update, or one or more sensors to which the software update pertains. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the software update is provided to a third mesh node that has a third Bloom filer that is primarily set to ones. ### Claim 9 One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause a publisher server to: generate data indicative of characteristics of a software update, wherein the characteristics include a criticality of the software update, wherein to generate data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises a generate a publication Bloom value indicative of the characteristics, wherein the software update is provided to a first mesh node having a first Bloom filter indicative of a predefined likelihood that the mesh node accepts the software update, and wherein the software update is provided to a second mesh node having a second Bloom filter that matches a publication Bloom values of the software update; and provide the software update to a mesh node for distribution through a network. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The one or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media of claim 9, wherein to generate data indicative of characteristics of the software update comprises to generate data indicative of at least one of a version of the software update, a mesh node type associated with the software update, or one or more sensors to which the software update pertains. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The one or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media of claim 9, wherein the software update is provided to a third mesh node that has a third Bloom Filer that is primarily set to ones.