Patent ID: 8335814

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a multi-mote index 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 multi-mote index creation agent including: 1) instructions to install at least a portion of the received multi-mote index 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 indexes 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 indexes received from the at least one other mote of the first set of motes, forming an aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content indexes; and transmitting at least a part of the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content indexes to an aggregator configured to store (i) the aggregate of the one or more mote-addressed content indexes from the first set of motes administered by the first network administrator and (ii) one or more mote-addressed content indexes from a second set of motes administered by a second network administrator.