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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2005
Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zhiyong LI, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Geoffrey Lyon, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Philip Kuekes, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shih Yuang Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
R. Stanley Williams, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zhiyong Li, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Geoffrey Lyon, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Philip Kuekes, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shih Yuang Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
R. Stanley Williams, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A multi-tiered network for gathering detected condition information includes a first tier having first tier nodes and a second tier having a second tier node. The second tier node is operable to receive detected condition information from at least one of the first tier nodes in a substantially autonomous manner. In addition, the second tier node is operable to at least one of store, process, and transmit the detected condition information. The network also includes a third tier having a third tier node configured to receive the detected condition information and to at least one of store and process the detected condition information.