Patent ID: 8161097

Claim:
A method for a first mote of a set of motes, the method comprising: (a) receiving a multi-mote index creation agent from a second mote of the set of motes; (b) installing at least a portion of the multi-mote index creation agent on the first mote of the set of motes after the first mote is deployed; (c) receiving at least a part of one or more mote-addressed content indexes from at least one other mote of the set of motes; (d) aggregating, with the multi-mote index creation agent, at least a portion of the at least a part of the one or more mote-addressed content indexes into at least one aggregated mote-addressed content index; and (e) transferring at least a part of the at least one aggregated mote-addressed content index to an aggregator configured to store the at least a part of the at least one aggregated mote-addressed content index.