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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2010
Raul Hernan Etkin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Erik Ordentlich, San Jose, CA (US);
Gadiel Seroussi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marcelo Weinberger, San Jose, CA (US);
Raul Hernan Etkin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Erik Ordentlich, San Jose, CA (US);
Gadiel Seroussi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marcelo Weinberger, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a sensor comprising one or more sensing devices, data-transmission components that transmit sensor data to a receiving component, and a processing component. The processing component executes routines to record sensing-device output as data for transmission to the receiving entity and to control the data-transmission components to transmit the data to the receiving entity. The processing component executes one or more compressing routines to compress data prior to transmission, when data compression is estimated to result in a lower power cost than transmitting uncompressed data, and controlling the data-transmission components to transmit data without compressing the data when data compression is estimated to result in a higher power cost than transmitting uncompressed data.