Patent ID: 9398479
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04Q,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: translating, in response to receipt of a first data packet addressed to a physical network address of one of a plurality of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices from an application server, the physical network address to a shared logical device physical network address that forms a logical device group and that physically addresses each of the plurality of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices over a single wireless communication channel; embedding the physical network address of the one of the plurality of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices within the first data packet addressed to the shared logical device physical network address; sending the first data packet to the shared logical device physical network address; embedding the physical network address of the one of the plurality of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices within a broadcast data packet addressed to the shared logical device physical network address; embedding a physical network address of at least one additional wireless customer-premise monitoring device of the plurality of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices within the broadcast data packet addressed to the shared logical device physical network address; and sending the broadcast data packet to the shared logical device physical network address.