Patent ID: 8064941

Claim:
A method for communicating with at least one target device, the method performed by a source device and comprising: configuring, by the source device, response condition information; transmitting, by the source device, the configured response condition information to the at least one target device; receiving, by the source device, at least one response, wherein the at least one response is transmitted from one or more of the at least one target device that is qualified to respond based on the response condition information and a target identifier of each of the at least one target device, wherein each of the at least one target device is configured to process the target identifier using the response condition information, and wherein a result of the processing is used to determine if the one or more of the at least one target device is qualified to respond; determining, by the source device, whether a network condition is met based on a number of the one or more of the at least one target device from which the at least one response was transmitted; re-configuring, by the source device, new response condition information if it is determined that the network condition is not met; and transmitting, by the source device, the new response condition information to the at least one target device.