Patent ID: 11950213
Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method for controlling deployment of sensor devices over wireless networks, the method comprising:
broadcasting, by a gateway device, a first electronic communication on one or more channels of a plurality of different channels, where the first electronic communication is broadcasted in a first time slot of a time interval;
receiving, by the gateway device, a second electronic communication from a sensor device in response to the broadcasting of the first electronic communication, where the second electronic communication is received in a second time slot of the time interval;
consequent to the second electronic communication:
reporting discovery of the sensor device to a service provider system, and
receiving an authorization of the sensor device from the service provider system;

transmitting, by the gateway device, a third electronic communication to the sensor device in response to the second electronic communication, the third electronic communication:
transmitted in a third time slot of the time interval; and
comprising an indication of an assignment of a fourth time slot of the time interval to the sensor device;

receiving, by the gateway device, one or more transmissions from the sensor device in one or more subsequent instances of the fourth time slot of the time interval; and
based at least in part on the one or more transmissions from the sensor device, transmitting, by the gateway device, data to one or more computer systems via one or more networks.