Patent ID: 9571361
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, by an entity status controller in a first entity, an appropriate time for transmitting a status message reporting a status of the first entity to a second entity, wherein the first entity is a device subordinate to the second entity in a hierarchical network, the status of the first entity reflecting whether or not the first entity is active; and transmitting, by an entity status reporting module in the first entity, the status message reporting the status of the first entity to the second entity, the status message including a list of identifications for active entities and a list of identifications for inactive entities, such that the second entity receives the status of the first entity and entities subordinate to the first entity in the hierarchical network, wherein the appropriate time for transmitting the status message is a predetermined time after the first entity is initialized or a time after the status of the first entity has stabilized.