Patent ID: 9686132
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A terminal comprising: a sensor, an actuator, or both a sensor and an actuator (“functional device”), a digital data processor, at least one network interface, the network interface being designed to couple the digital data processor to a first network, with the result that data can be transmitted from the functional device to the network, data can be transmitted from the network to the functional device, or both, a client address from the first network, a storage device which stores a server address from a second network, the digital data processor being designed to transmit a message to the server address when initializing the terminal via the network interface, to actively set up communication with the server at the stored server address from the second network during initialization, and including a connection module, the connection module configured to transmit the message several times in succession and to increase the intervals of time between the transmission of the message on the basis of the time from initialization, on the basis of the number of transmitted messages, or both.