Patent ID: 9654997
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a sensor observation system for reporting observations to data users, said observations originating from data collected from a network of sensors, the method comprising: storing sensor information that describes sensors in the network of sensors; storing user information that describes the data users; receiving and storing observation data of an observation from one of the sensors in the network of sensors; tagging the stored observation data with stored sensor information that corresponds to the sensor; providing a first observation report of the observation data originating from the sensor to a first data user of the data users; receiving a rating of the first observation report with respect to quality of the report from the first data user; linking the received rating from the first data user with the stored observation data from the sensor; tagging the received rating with stored user information corresponding to the first data user; creating rating information pertaining to reliability of said sensor, based on the rating received from the first data user; providing a second observation report of any observation data originating from said sensor to a second data user, the second observation report comprising said rating information to indicate reliability of the second observation report; and monitoring the sensor observation system by triggering a check of one of the sensors in the network of sensors based on said rating information.