Patent ID: 8929246
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling payment reconciliation in a mixed-ownership low-power mesh network, comprising: monitoring packet traffic routed by a particular node of the mesh network; identifying an originator node address and a number of units of data for each particular packet of the packet traffic; and sending, in response to a trigger, data to another particular node of the mesh network that represents a total number of units of data routed by the particular node for each originator node address, wherein sending data to the another particular node comprises: aggregating data for a plurality of particular originating nodes for which the particular node served as a router, determining based on a corresponding node address an ownership entity of each one of the plurality of particular originating nodes, deleting or ignoring the portion of aggregated data for ones of the plurality of particular originating nodes owned by a same entity as the another particular node, and sending the remaining portion of aggregated data to a reconciliation server via the another particular node.