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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2017
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tobias Jacobs, Mannheim, DE;
Salvatore Longo, Mantova, IT;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for providing M2M data items according to M2M data subscriptions retrieved from an M2M frontend (FE) by an M2M backend (BE) to one or more M2M applications includes representing the data items by a set of parameters including a required update frequency and a weight representing an importance of the data item; determining a schedule for retrieving data items from the FE by the BE based on the weights of the data items; determining that an actual period required to update each of one or more respective data items is larger than a required period corresponding to the required update frequency and adding a penalty value to the weight of each of the respective one or more data items to provide updated weights; and modifying the schedule based on the updated weights.