Patent ID: 7991869

Claim:
Method of management of decisions between central manager equipment and at least one terminal equipment within a network architecture distributed and hierarchically organized in N levels with N≧2, the central manager equipment being included in a rank N level, said at least one terminal equipment being included in a rank 1 level, wherein the method comprises a step of distribution of a decision tree built by the central manager equipment and relying on said architecture, the step of distribution of the decision tree itself comprising the following steps, for a given terminal equipment: from the decision tree, called a rank N tree, the central manager equipment creates a simplified tree of rank N−1; if N=2, the central manager equipment transmits the simplified tree of rank N−1 to the given terminal equipment so that the given terminal equipment takes a decision on the basis of the simplified tree of rank N−1 and executes the decision; if N≧3, the following steps are performed, after k has been initialized at N−1: a) the central manager equipment transmits the simplified tree of rank k to intermediate manager equipment of rank k included in the rank k level; b) the intermediate manager equipment of rank k creates a simplified tree of rank k−1 from the simplified tree of rank k; c) if k≧3, the intermediate manager equipment of rank k transmits the simplified tree of rank k−1 to an intermediate manager equipment of rank k−1 included in the level of rank k−1 and the process returns to the step b) after having decremented k by one unit; if k=2, the intermediate manager equipment of rank k transmits the simplified tree of rank k−1 to the given terminal equipment, so that the given terminal equipment takes a decision on the basis of the simplified tree of rank k−1 and executes the decision.