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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2014
Applicant:
Tsinghua University, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, Beijing, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C 17/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/0219 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for saving energy for a wireless sensor network is provided, comprising: introducing a high energy device; defining a sensor node within a coverage of the high energy device as a source node or a forwarding node by the high energy device based on a routing relationship; sending sensed data to the high energy device by the source node at any time; and selecting a forwarding node at a working time to forward the data by the high energy device while making the other forwarding nodes at a dormancy time.