Autonomous sharing of data between geographically proximate nodes

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017374113-A1
Application number	US-201615193343-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 27, 2016
Priority date	Jun 27, 2016
Publication date	Dec 28, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A communication system may include a plurality of geographically proximate nodes that communicate via one or more range-limited wireless technologies such as BLUETOOTH® low energy (BLE). An origin node may generate and communicate a first message responsive to detecting an event occurrence. The message may include an identifier associated with the origin node, data indicative of the event occurrence, a hop count, a maximum hop count, and a number of designated recipient nodes within the communication system. A first designated recipient node may, upon receiving the first message, attempt to confirm the event occurrence included in the first message. Upon confirming the event occurrence, the first designated recipient node may communicate a notification to an external third party. If unable to confirm the event occurrence, the first designated recipient node may generate and communicate a second message to a second designated recipient node included in the first message.

First claim

What is claimed:

1 . A communication system comprising:
a plurality of nodes, including at least an origin node, a first designated recipient node, and a second designated recipient node, each of the plurality of nodes logically associated with a geographic location and including: at least one wireless communications interface to receive a first message from an origin node, the first message including data indicative at least: an event occurrence type and at least a first designated recipient node; a configurable circuit communicably coupled to the at least one wireless communications interface; a storage device communicably coupled to the configurable circuit, the storage device including machine readable instructions that transform the configurable circuit to a communications link control circuit that includes:
event identification circuitry to determine an event occurrence type;
event priority determination circuitry to determine a priority logically associated with the event occurrence;
message generation circuitry to autonomously generate a second message that includes data indicative of: the event occurrence type provided by the origin node; the determined event occurrence priority received from the event priority determination circuitry; and the determined event occurrence type received from the event identification circuitry; and message transmission circuitry to autonomously, selectively, transmit the second message to at least a second designated recipient node.

2 . The communication system of claim 1 wherein the communications link control circuit further comprises:
authentication circuitry to:
verify authentication data included in the first message corresponds to the origin node; and
generate authentication data that corresponds to the first designated recipient node for inclusion in the second message.

3 . The communication system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions that cause the communications link control circuit to autonomously, selectively, transmit the second message to at least the second designated recipient node further cause the communications link control circuit to:
autonomously, selectively, transmit the second message to at least the second designated recipient node, the second designated recipient node autonomously selected by the communications link control circuit based at least in part on a type of defined event occurrence.

4 . The communication system of claim 1 wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the message transmission circuitry to autonomously, selectively, transmit the second message to at least the second designated recipient node, the second designated recipient node autonomously selected by the message transmission circuitry based at least on the event occurrence type.

5 . The communication system of claim 1 wherein the machine readable instructions further cause the message generation circuitry to:
generate a second message that includes data provided by the origin node, data indicative of one or more media files that include information indicative of the event occurrence, and data indicative of at least one designated recipient node.

6 . The communication system of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of nodes is communicably coupled to at least one or other node included in the plurality of nodes via a BLUETOOTH® low energy wireless communications interface.

7 . The communication system of claim 6 wherein each of the plurality of nodes are communicably coupled to at least one or other node included in the plurality of nodes via a BLUETOOTH® low energy advertising channel.

8 . The communication system of claim 1 :
wherein the first message further includes data indicative of a hop count and data indicative of a maximum hop count; wherein the communications link control circuit further includes hop count comparator circuitry to compare the data indicative of the hop count included in the first message with the data indicative of the maximum hop count included in the first message; and wherein the machine-readable instructions cause the message transmission circuitry to further selectively transmit the second message to at least the second designated recipient node only when the hop count included in the first message is less than the maximum hop count included in the first message.

9 . The communication system of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of nodes further includes at least one sensor communicably coupled to the configurable circuit, the at least one sensor to provide a signal that includes data indicative of an event occurrence.

10 . The communication system of claim 9 :
wherein the at least one sensor provides a signal that includes data indicative of an event occurrence proximate the first designated recipient node; wherein the machine readable instructions further cause the message generation circuitry to generate a message that includes data indicative of the event occurrence proximate the first designated recipient node; and wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the message transmission circuitry to communicate the generated message to at least one other designated recipient node in the plurality of nodes.

11 . The communication system of claim 9 :
wherein the at least one sensor further provides a signal that includes data indicative of the event occurrence at a geographic location remote from the first designated recipient node; wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the event identification circuitry to attempt to confirm the event occurrence at the geographic location remote from the first designated recipient node; and wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the message transmission circuitry to selectively transmit a notification message that includes data indicative of the confirmed event occurrence from the first designated recipient node to a third party external to the plurality of nodes responsive to a successful confirmation of the event occurrence at the geographic location remote from the first designated recipient node.

12 . The communication system of claim 11 :
wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the message generation circuitry to generate the second message that includes data indicative of the event occurrence responsive to an unsuccessful confirmation of the event occurrence at the geographic location remote from the first designated recipient node; and wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the message transmission circuitry to selectively transmit the second message to at least one other designated recipient node included in the plurality of nodes.

13 . A wireless communication method, comprising:
receiving a first message from an origin node included in a plurality of nodes at a second node included in the plurality of nodes, the first message including:
data indicative of an event occurrence remote from the first designated recipient node;
data representative of a hop count;
data representative of a maximum number of hops; and
data representative of at least one designated recipient node;
incrementing the hop count by the first designated recipient node; determining whether the hop count equals the maximum number of hops by the first designated recipient node; responsive to a determination that the hop count is less than the maximum number of hops, generating a second message at the first designated recipient node responsive to receipt of the first message, the second message including:
data or information indicative of the event occurrence received from the origin node;
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Assignees

• Booth Cory J
• Jordan Adam
• Payne Michael J
• Zafiroglu Alexandra C
• Ekandem Joshua
• Chhabra Jasmeet
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Booth Cory J
• Jordan Adam
• Payne Michael J
• Zafiroglu Alexandra C
• Ekandem Joshua
• Chhabra Jasmeet

Classifications

• H04L43/04

  Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation · CPC title

• H04W4/005

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L41/0645

  by additionally acting on or stimulating the network after receiving notifications · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic