Patent ID: 9641915
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a broker device in a persistent data network, a request from one or more sensor consumers for sensor data originated by one or more isolated sensor devices, the isolated sensor devices not reachable by any wired or wireless infrastructure; sending, by the broker device via the persistent data network in response to the request, a message to a mobile collector device indicating an instruction for obtaining the sensor data from the one or more isolated sensor devices; and receiving, by the broker device in the persistent data network, the sensor data from the mobile collector device having established a local data connection with the one or more isolated sensor devices, and in response causing sending of a credit for receiving the sensor data to a registered user of the mobile collector device; wherein: the request includes a registration request for an identified first of the sensor consumers to receive the sensor data, an incentive indicator that identifies an incentive for obtaining the sensor data, and location information identifying at least an identifiable region containing the isolated sensor devices; the instruction in the message specifies the incentive for obtaining the sensor data; and the method further comprising the broker device associating the first of the sensor consumers with requesting the sensor data from the isolated sensor devices within the identifiable region, for the incentive identified by the incentive indicator.