Patent ID: 9474101
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A Machine to Machine (M2M) gateway, comprising: a receiver configured to receive a device management (DM) command from a DM server, with the DM server connecting to a plurality of sensor devices within a sensor network via the M2M gateway and with the DM command configured for remotely managing a sensor network topology; a memory storing a topology tree and instructions, the topology tree comprises a first management object (MO) node and a plurality of second MO nodes, wherein the first MO node comprises an identification and a type of the sensor network, and each second MO node describes a characteristic of a sensor device, neighbor devices of the sensor device described by the each second MO node, and a connection relationship between the sensor device described by the each second MO node and the neighbor sensor devices, wherein the topology tree corresponds to the sensor network topology; a processor coupled to the receiver and the memory and executing the instructions, wherein the instructions configure the M2M gateway to: a transmitter configured to send the characteristic of each of the plurality of sensor devices and the connection relationship of the plurality of sensor devices of the sensor network to the DM server.