Patent ID: 9445218
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: clustering, by one or more devices, a plurality of nodes in a machine to machine (M2M) network, into a plurality of clusters, each of the clusters including: setting, by the one or more devices, a first update interval for the one or more nodes in each of the clusters, the first update interval for the one or more nodes being set on a per-cluster basis and defining a period at which the one or more nodes in a particular cluster transmit data towards a corresponding hub node of the particular cluster; setting, by the one or more devices, a second update interval for the hub node of each of the clusters, the second update interval for the hub node being set on a per-cluster basis and defining a period at which the hub node transmits data, received from the one or more nodes of the particular cluster, to the one or more devices; and receiving, by the one or more devices, the data transmitted by the hub nodes corresponding to each of the plurality of clusters.