Connection management for internet of things devices
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsCarl Wang, Quentin N. Robinson, Ted Stecko, Shamik Basu
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Abstract
A network device identifies Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a wireless network in a service area; determines a reporting configuration for each of the IoT devices associated with an initiation of reporting instances via the wireless; identifies, based on the reporting configurations, a potential signal loading reduction over the wireless network and/or a potential power consumption reduction related to the reporting configuration associated with at least one of the IoT devices; and modifies the reporting configuration of the at least one IoT device to enable the potential signal loading reduction and/or the potential power consumption reduction.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- identifying, by a network device, Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a wireless network in an IoT service area;
- determining, by the network device, a reporting configuration for each of the IoT devices associated with an initiation of reporting instances via the wireless network;
- determining, by the network device and based on the reporting configurations, that the reporting configuration for at least one IoT device schedules the initiation of at least one of the reporting instances at a point in time that coincides with the initiation of the reporting instances scheduled by the reporting configuration for at least a threshold number of the IoT devices;
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- modifying, by the network device, the reporting configuration of the at least one IoT device to apply a starting time offset to the at least one of the reporting instances.
A network device comprising:
- a communication interface;
- a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions;
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- a processor, wherein the processor executes the instructions to:
- identify Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a wireless network in a service area;
- determine a reporting configuration of each of the IoT devices associated with an initiation of reporting instances via the wireless network;
- modify the reporting configuration of the at least one IoT device to enable at least one of a potential signal loading reduction over the wireless network or a potential power consumption reduction related to the reporting configuration associated with at least one of the IoT devices;
- send, via the communication interface and to the at least one IoT device, a message identifying the modified reporting configuration;
- form a set of the IoT devices based on a location of each IoT device of the set with respect to the service area, wherein the set includes the at least one IoT device;
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- collectively schedule the initiation of the reporting instances based on the reporting configurations of the IoT devices of the set, wherein the initiation of the reporting instances is alternately performed by each IoT device of the set.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a computational device, which when executed cause the computational device to:
- identify Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a wireless network in a service area;
- determine a reporting configuration for each of the IoT devices associated with an initiation of reporting instances via the wireless network;
- modify the reporting configuration of the at least one IoT device to enable at least one of a potential signal loading reduction over the wireless network or a potential power consumption reduction related to the reporting configuration associated with at least one of the IoT devices;
- transmit, to the at least one IoT device, a first message identifying the modified reporting configuration;
- detect that one or more of the IoT devices is no longer in the wireless network;
- re-identify, based on the detecting, the at least one of a potential signal loading reduction over the wireless network or a potential power consumption reduction;
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- update, based on the re-identification, the modified reporting configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.