US 2013/0273901 A1 · Scalable Common Infrastructure for Information Collection from Networked Devices

Abstract

A common infrastructure collects diverse data and information from large numbers of mobile devices and traditional sensors at Internet scale to support multiple different applications simultaneously. The infrastructure includes a backend phenomenon layer that provides high level abstractions to applications such that they can express their data and information needs in a declarative fashion and coordinate the data collection and processing activities for all applications. An edge layer that manages devices, receives collection requirements from the backend layer, configures and instructs devices for data collection, and conducts aggregation and primitive processing of the data. This layer contains network edge nodes, such as base stations in a cellular network. Each node manages a set of local data generating networked devices. The device agent data layer using common agents on the data generating networked devices receives data collection instructions from the edge layer, performs data collection.

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Dependent claims

A data capture system comprising:

a phenomenon layer configured to receive data request specifications and to generate data collection requirements responsive to the data request specifications, each data request specification comprising an identification of types of data, a time duration for collection of the types of data and physical locations associated with the types of data;
an edge layer in communication with the phenomenon layer and configured to receive the data collection requirements and to identify raw data required to satisfy the data collection requirements;
and
a plurality of identical common software agents, each common software agent executing on one of a plurality of data generating networked devices and in communication with the edge layer, the common software agents configured to obtain the identified raw data required to satisfy the data collection requirements.

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A data capture system comprising:

a phenomenon layer configured to receive data request specifications and to generate data collection requirements responsive to the data request specifications, each data request specification comprising an identification of types of data, a time duration for collection of the types of data and physical locations associated with the types of data;
an edge layer in communication with the phenomenon layer and comprising a plurality of nodes, each node comprising a base station in a cellular network and
configured to receive the data collection requirements and to identify raw data required to satisfy the data collection requirements;
and
a plurality of identical common software agents, each common software agent executing on one of a plurality of data generating networked devices and in communication with the plurality of nodes in the edge layer, each data generating networked device comprising a cellular network communication enabled device and the common software agents configured to obtain the identified raw data required to satisfy the data collection requirements from the cellular network communication enabled devices.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Scalable Common Infrastructure for Information Collection from Networked Devices

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Scalable Common Infrastructure for Information Collection from Networked Devices

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Abstract

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