Patent ID: 8295762

Claim:
A method for processing signals in a sensor network, the sensor network including a plurality of sensors each sensor being in a state of an owning sensor or non-owning sensor, the method comprising: establishing, by a non-owning sensor in the network, a neighborhood of owning sensors, each of the owning sensors owning a specific source signal from amongst a plurality of source signals generated from sources; obtaining, by the non-owning sensor, signal information from the owning sensors in the neighborhood of owning sensors; comparing, by the non-owning sensor, based on the signal information, a signal reception strength of an owning sensor over a specific source signal owned by the owning sensor with a signal reception strength of the non-owning sensor over the specific source signal; and based on the comparison of the signal reception strengths, the non-owning sensor taking ownership of the specific source signal.