Patent ID: 8346846
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G01D,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a mote log creation agent at a second mote of a first set of motes administered by a first network administrator from a first mote of the first set of motes over a mote network after the first and second motes are deployed in the mote network, the mote log creation agent including: 1) instructions to install at least a portion of the received mote log content creation agent on the second mote, 2) instructions that configure the second mote to receive at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs from at least one other mote of the first set of motes, and 3) instructions that configure the second mote to aggregate at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content logs received from the at least one other mote of the first set of motes to form an aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs; and transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs to an aggregator configured to store (i) the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content logs obtained from motes administered by the first network administrator, and (ii) one or more mote-addressed content logs obtained from motes administered by a second administrator, and wherein at least one of the receiving or the transmitting is at least partially implemented using hardware.