Patent ID: 8908562

Claim:
In a Machine to Machine (M2M) gateway, a method for remotely managing a sensor network topology, comprising: receiving a first and second device management (DM) commands from a device management server via a first network, wherein the M2M gateway connects the device management server to at least two sensor devices within a sensor network different from the first network; upon receiving the first or second DM command, accessing a topology tree that includes two or more management object (MO) nodes, which describe and represent a sensor network topology relative to the M2M gateway including a connectional relationship between the at least two sensor devices within the sensor network, and wherein a first of the two or more MO nodes includes an identification and type of the sensor network and a second of the at least two or more MO nodes describes at least one characteristic of each of the at least two sensor devices and a connectional relationship between them; based on an address within the first DM command and information within the first MO node, retrieving first information from the topology tree including the identification and type of the sensor network; based on an address within the second DM command and information within the second MO node, retrieving second information from the topology tree including the characteristic of the at least two sensor devices and the connectional relationship between the at least two sensor devices; and sending the retrieved first and second information to the device management server.