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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2011
Shalini Kapoor, Bangalore, IN;
Shachi Sharma, Yamuna Vihar, IN;
Bharat Srinivasan, Secunderabad, IN;
Shalini Kapoor, Bangalore, IN;
Shachi Sharma, Yamuna Vihar, IN;
Bharat Srinivasan, Secunderabad, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Clustering devices in an Internet of Things ('IoT'), including: receiving, by a device clustering module, a characteristic set for a device, wherein the characteristic set specifies one or more device attributes and an attribute value for each device attribute; clustering, by the device clustering module, the device into an attribute level cluster based on the one or more device attributes specified in the characteristic set for the device; and clustering, by the device clustering module, the device into a value level cluster based on the attribute value for each device attribute, wherein the value level cluster is a subset of the attribute level cluster.