Patent ID: 9226169
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04L,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A headless sensor device to collect measurement data, the headless sensor device comprising: a sensor head to measure an amount of data from an environment of the headless sensor device in response to receipt, by the headless sensor device, of a measurement function call from a mobile computing device; and a processing logic to: (i) receive one or more discovery function calls from the mobile computing device, (ii) transmit a sensor type indicative of a type of the sensor head and a sensor payload format indicative of a format of packets to be transmitted to the mobile computing device in response to receipt of the one or more discovery function calls, (iii) generate a measurement payload packet from the amount of data measured from the environment, the measurement payload packet formatted according to the sensor payload format, and (iv) transmit the measurement payload packet to the mobile computing device.