US 10,379,839 B2Granted

Device and method for facilitating secure communications over a cellular network

AssigneeTrilliant Networks, Inc.

InventorsFrederick Enns, Michel Veillette, Randall Wayne Frei

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Abstract

A process for communicating utility-related data over at least one network is described. the process includes: collecting utility-related data at a hub device during a first predetermined period of time; securing the utility-related data at the hub device using digital envelopes during the first predetermined period of time; initiating by the hub device an autonomous wake up process during a second predetermined period of time; sending the secure utility-related data over a first network to a designated server via at least one User Datagram protocol (“UDP”) message during the second predetermined period of time; and receiving an acknowledgement of receipt message of the at least one UDP message from the designated server; wherein the first and second predetermined periods of time typically do not overlap, but may overlap.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for receiving utility-related data over a network comprising:

receiving at a head end device, a User Datagram protocol (UDP) bulk message comprising one or more UDP messages in a digital envelope, where each of the one or more UDP messages includes utility-related data, wherein utility-related data includes one or more of utility meter reading data, utility meter alarm data and firmware upgrade status data;
validating the digital envelope;
sorting the UDP messages;
and
transmitting a second UDP message comprising an acknowledgement of receipt for each of the received UDP messages, wherein each of the one or more received UDP messages comprises in a first part of the UDP message, a reason code for facilitating the sorting of the one or more UDP message into one of multiple predetermined storage buckets, and in a second part of the one or more UDP message, the utility-related data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/263,262Filed 31 Jan 2019 · continuation
Priority: 10 Feb 2011
Published: US 2019/0163468 A130 May 2019
Granted: 13 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification36 codes

G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
H04L 12/28
Data switching networks: characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]
H04L 12/2834
Processing of data at an internetworking point of a home automation network: switching of information between an external network and a home network
H04L 41/082
Characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings: the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality

Family

Application61/441,375Us provisional application · filed 10 Feb 2011
Application13/369,520Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Feb 2012
Application14/218,211Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Mar 2014
US 8,856,323 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Oct 2014
Application15/900,052Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Feb 2018
US 2019/0163468 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 May 2019
US 10,198,257 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0209951 A1Published application
US 2014/0282482 A1Published application
US 2018/0173519 A1Published application
US 10,379,839 B2This patent

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