Patent ID: 11968081
Assignee: NILE GLOBAL, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A network device, the network device comprising:
a controller configured to receive a notification of a faulty network device in vicinity of the network device from a cloud server; and
a short-range wireless transceiver configured to:
connect to a corresponding short-range wireless transceiver of the faulty network device under a client mode;
receive an instruction to be executed by the faulty network device from the cloud server and forward the instruction to the faulty network device after the network device is successfully connected to the faulty network device under the client mode; and
receive execution result information of the instruction by the faulty network device,
wherein at the cloud server, a Bluetooth (BT) or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) reachability database of a network is generated, and wherein at the cloud server, the network device is selected from a plurality of BT or BLE capable network devices in vicinity of the faulty network device based on the BT or BLE reachability database when the faulty network device loses connectivity to the cloud server.