Patent ID: 8200744

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) receiving at least a portion of an index creation agent at a first mote from a second mote via a mote network; (b) installing the at least a portion of the index creation agent at the first mote; (c) communicating with at least one device entity registry at the first mote using the installed at least a portion of the index creation agent to receive at least one device identifier indicative of at least one device entity of the first mote; (d) communicating with the at least one device entity using the at least one device identifier; (e) determining at least one of a sensing function or a control function of the first mote; (f) creating one or more mote-addressed content indexes of the first mote, wherein the one or more mote-addressed content indexes indicate at least one of a sensing capability or a control capability of at least one device associated with the at least one device entity of the first mote; and (g) transmitting at least a part of the one or more mote-addressed content indexes to an aggregator configured to store the at least a part of the one or more mote-addressed content indexes.