Patent ID: 9432271
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium for storing instructions, wherein the instructions, upon execution by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to: receive a plurality of reports from a plurality of other apparatuses, wherein each of the plurality of reports is for a same sensor type; receive an instruction from another apparatus, the instruction indicating a portion of the plurality of reports to be filtered out based on a load capacity of the another apparatus; filter out one or more of the plurality of reports based on the instruction by filtering out a number of the reports over a period of time exceeding a reporting rate set by the load capacity of the another apparatus; and forward the remaining plurality of reports to the another apparatus, wherein each of the plurality of reports comprises data based on a sensor measurement at the respective one of the plurality of other apparatuses.