Patent ID: 8219666
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for generating an alert for a monitored entity at a receiving device, said receiving device operating in a network of participating devices, at least some of said participating devices comprising a monitored entity of the same device type as the monitored entity in said receiving device, the method being performed in said receiving device and comprising: receiving status information about said same device type from said receiving device and from each of said participating devices comprising a monitored entity of said same device type; aggregating the status information received from said participating devices to derive a device type status consensus for said device type; comparing the device type status consensus with the status of the monitored entity at said receiving device; establishing a difference between the device type status consensus and the status of the monitored entity in said receiving device; and generating an alert for the monitored entity at said receiving device as a function of the established difference.