Patent ID: 9407542
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a plurality of minimalistic connected objects (MCOs), each MCO having just intelligence to perform its respective designated task, securely join a computer network, communicate with other MCOs of the plurality of MCOs and provide nominal state information, wherein the MCOs are not configured to perform complex application-specific data processing and complex networking tasks; one or more distributed intelligence agents (DIAs) configured to provide an edge to the computer network for the MCOs, the DIAs responsible for intelligent networking management for the MCOs, for performing complex application-specific data processing for the MCOs and for at least one of the following: making Quality of Service (QoS) decisions for the MCOs, participating in call admission control (CAC) operations, providing traffic engineering (TE) services, and extrapolating network management information for the MCOs; and one or more central intelligence controllers (CICs) within the computer network in communication with the DIAs, the CICs configured to perform complex tasks for overarching control of MCO and DIA operation and also configured to provide one or more interfaces to receive a set of user-defined rules for the MCO and DIA operation, wherein the complex tasks for overarching control of MCO and DIA operation performed by the CICs comprise at least one of security operations, performance monitoring, and service level agreement (SLA) management.