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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
May. 04, 2012
Christopher Lloyd Osterloh, Waseca, MN (US);
James Patrick Ogle, Spokane, WA (US);
Bret Gregory Holmdahl, Greenacres, WA (US);
Christopher Lloyd Osterloh, Waseca, MN (US);
James Patrick Ogle, Spokane, WA (US);
Bret Gregory Holmdahl, Greenacres, WA (US);
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Abstract
Collection of resource consumption data may be coordinated by designating, for each endpoint in a utility communication network, a single data collector to be responsible for reporting resource consumption data of the respective endpoints to a head-end computing device. If the head-end computing device does not receive resource consumption data from one or more endpoints, the head-end computing device may request the missing resource consumption data from one or more secondary or tertiary data collectors that receive resource consumption data from the one or more endpoints. Additionally, if a data collector is missing resource consumption data from an endpoint during a reporting period, upon receiving resource consumption data from the endpoint during a subsequent reporting period, the data collector may request the missing resource consumption data.