Patent ID: 7853983
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating data from a telemetry transmitter device to a telemetry receiver device, the method comprising: associating an identity identifier with the telemetry transmitter device, the identity identifier being independent of a network address of the telemetry transmitter device and being unique across all telemetry transmitter devices and across all enterprises; and sending, over a computer network, a telemetry data element from the telemetry transmitter device to the telemetry receiver device, the telemetry data element including the identity identifier of the telemetry transmitter device, a data element identifier that is unique across all data elements sent by the telemetry transmitter device, and a client data element comprising transmitter-defined data; wherein the data element identifier comprises a generation number and a sequence number, and identifies a period that the telemetry transmitter device was active by having the generation number incremented when the telemetry transmitter device becomes active from an inactive state and by having the sequence number reset when the telemetry transmitter device becomes active from an inactive state; wherein the identity identifier comprises a realm that identifies a particular instance of an identity service that is responsible for managing the identities of telemetry transmitter devices and receiver devices, and a unique identifier that identifies each identity in the realm; wherein security information is associated with the identity identifier of the telemetry transmitter device; and the method further comprising using the security information to authenticate the telemetry transmitter device.