Patent ID: 8254351
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: A01B,A01D,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication network, comprising several nodes equipped with transmitter/receiver units for wireless communication, said nodes including mobile nodes installable on mobile machines; and a memory for storing operating parameter profiles of several of the mobile machines, assigned to each of said nodes and to which operating parameter profiles a time stamp is assigned to denote when each of the operating parameter profiles was generated; wherein every node is assigned to transmit the respective profiles of the several of the mobile machines stored on its assigned memory via its transmitter/receiver unit, and to update a profile of a particular mobile machine of the several of the mobile machines stored in its assigned memory based on a profile of the particular mobile machine that was received from another node, and wherein every node implements a process of updating parameter profiles which includes comparing a time stamp assigned to a stored profile of a mobile machine with a time stamp assigned to a received profile for the mobile machine and overwriting the stored profile with the received profile if the received profile is determined to be a more recent profile, in accordance with the following steps: a) a first node ( b) comparing the received time stamps with corresponding time stamps in the memory assigned to the first node ( c) prompting (S d) storing the profiles transmitted (S