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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bryan Lee Sullivan, Sammamish, WA (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Massively distributed and low-cost Internet of things (IoT) gateways can be controlled by software-defined networking (SDN) protocols transferred via an autonomous mobile device (e.g., fly-by drone). The IoT gateways can comprise sensors that capture information that is transferred to the communication network via the autonomous mobile device. For example, the autonomous mobile device can wake the IoT gateways adaptively and perform data collection and/or configuration tasks. Further, the autonomous mobile device can deliver the collected data to network devices of the communication network and return for the next batch of IoT gateway data collections.