Patent ID: 9734525
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. Apparatus for metasearching on a wireless sensor network, comprising: a plurality of spatially distributed sensor nodes, comprising a plurality of motes that monitor physical and environmental conditions at a plurality of locations, a gateway node, comprising a gateway transceiver and a gateway server device, which comprises a metasearch engine, a client device, comprising a client transceiver, said metasearch engine receiving a request from said client device, activated by said request executed on said client device, for said metasearch engine to request said metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to said at least two motes of said plurality of motes, said metasearch engine sending said plurality of search queries to said at least two motes of said plurality of motes, said metasearch engine receiving search results from said at least two motes of said plurality of motes in response to said plurality of search queries sent to said at least two motes of said plurality of motes, said metasearch engine communicating said response to said client device.