Patent ID: 8072902
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method at a mobile network node for managing data in a database distributed among a plurality of mobile network nodes in an Internet Protocol (IP) network, comprising the steps of: receiving, at an original mobile network node in the network, non-routing content data that describes a physical entity in a vicinity of the original mobile network node, wherein the physical entity is not a router or any of the mobile network nodes in the network, and a router in the network directs data packets among mobile network nodes in the network based on at least part of a topology of the network; in response to receiving the non-routing content data, generating a beacon data object in an object-oriented database distributed among a plurality of the mobile network nodes in the network, the mobile network nodes deployed in a geographical area for supporting operations related to entities within the geographical area, the entities including the physical entity and represented by respective data objects in the object-oriented distributed database, wherein the beacon data object holds the non-routing content data and holds policy data that indicates how to terminate the beacon data object based on a determined state of the physical entity; and causing a mobile network node that has ownership of the beacon data object to perform the step of terminating the beacon data object based on the policy data.