Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Coordinated collection of metering data
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Application No.: US13464746Application Date: 2012-05-04
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Publication No.: US09674589B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Christopher Lloyd Osterloh , James Patrick Ogle , Bret Gregory Holmdahl
- Applicant: Christopher Lloyd Osterloh , James Patrick Ogle , Bret Gregory Holmdahl
- Applicant Address: US WA Liberty Lake
- Assignee: Itron, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Itron, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Liberty Lake
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04Q9/00

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130297771A1 COORDINATED COLLECTION OF METERING DATA Public/Granted day:2013-11-07
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