ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,031, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tracie Wireless LLC (Burlington, Mass.).
"Lightweight messaging" was invented by Christopher D. Williams (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lightweight messaging between a cloud-based platform and a compact wireless device. The wireless device may transmit an initial message to a cloud-based platform, and receive an initial response message from the platform that specifies an interval. In response, the wireless device may transmit a reporting message to the platform that identifies the wireless device and indicates a status of the wireless device, set a reporting interval to the specifie...