US 9,311,803 B2 · System and method for managing sensor network uplink and downlink communications

Abstract

A network includes a supervisory sensor in communication with a wireless network and a non-supervisory sensor in communication with the supervisory sensor, wherein the non-supervisory sensor communicates with the wireless network through the supervisory sensor. The supervisory sensor may be configured to receive downloads from a server communicating through the wireless network and to collect data from the non-supervisory sensor. The supervisory sensor may be configured to transmit the collected data to a server on the wireless network. Moreover, the non-supervisory sensor and the supervisory sensor each have an active state and an inactive state and wherein the supervisory sensor may be in the active state while the non-supervisory sensor is in the inactive state.

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Dependent claims

A network comprising:

a supervisory sensor in communication, via at least a paging channel, with a wireless network, wherein the supervisory sensor is configured to receive downloads from a server communicating through the wireless network;
and
a non-supervisory sensor in communication, via at least the paging channel, with the supervisory sensor, wherein the non-supervisory sensor communicates with the wireless network through the supervisory sensor, wherein the supervisory sensor is configured to receive a command from the server to transfer supervisory functions to the non-supervisory sensor and upon execution of the command, disable a communication interface for the wireless network.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for managing sensor network uplink and downlink communications

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System and method for managing sensor network uplink and downlink communications

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