US 10,484,512 B2Granted

Management of multi-radio gateway device using virtual gateway device

AssigneeAyla Networks, Inc.

InventorsVishwesh Pai, Jigar Vora, Sudha Sundaresan, Daniel Myers, Haoqing Geng

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Abstract

A gateway device includes a first interface to connect to an internet protocol (IP) network and a second interface having a first communication protocol to connect to one or more devices. The gateway device receives an instruction to initiate an attribute update for a device from a remote server via the first interface, the first instruction having a first format. The gateway device determines the attribute update and a virtual device identifier associated with the first device from the first instruction. The gateway device determines the first communication protocol and a first device based at least in part on the first virtual device identifier. The gateway device generates a command for the first device to perform the first attribute update, the command having a second format based at least in part on the first communication protocol, and sends the command to the first device via the second interface.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by remote server executing a virtual gateway device associated with a multi-radio gateway device, a request to initiate a first attribute update for a first device managed by the multi-radio gateway device;
generating, by the virtual gateway device, a first instruction to initiate the first attribute update for the first device, the first instruction having a first format that is not associated with a first communication protocol used by the first device;
sending, by the virtual gateway device, the first instruction to the multi-radio gateway device associated with the virtual gateway device;
receiving, by the multi-radio gateway device, the first instruction from the virtual gateway device of the remote server to initiate the first attribute update for the first device managed by the multi-radio gateway device, wherein the multi-radio gateway device supports a plurality of types of wireless communication protocols for communication with one or more devices connected to the multi-radio gateway device, the one or more devices including the first device;
determining, by the multi-radio gateway device, the first attribute update and a first virtual device identifier associated with the first device from the first instruction, wherein the first virtual device identifier is used by the remote server to uniquely identify the first device;
determining, by the multi-radio gateway device based at least in part on the first virtual device identifier, the first communication protocol from the plurality of types of wireless communication protocols supported by the multi-radio gateway device and a first device identifier used by the multi-radio gateway device to uniquely identify the first device;
generating, by the multi-radio gateway device, a first command for the first device to perform the first attribute update, the first command having a second format based at least in part on the first communication protocol;
and
sending the first command to the first device.

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A method comprising:

executing, by a server computing device, a virtual gateway device associated with a multi-radio gateway device, the multi-radio gateway device supporting a plurality of types of wireless communication protocols for communication with one or more devices connected to the multi-radio gateway device;
receiving, by the virtual gateway device and from the multi-radio gateway device, a first device identifier of a first device managed by the multi-radio gateway device, wherein the first device identifier is used by the multi-radio gateway device to uniquely identify the first device, the one or more devices including the first device;
receiving, by the virtual gateway device and from the multi-radio gateway device, a first plurality of device attributes of the first device;
generating, by the virtual gateway device, a first virtual device identifier for the first device, wherein the first virtual device identifier is used by the virtual gateway device of the server computing device to uniquely identify the first device and is to be used by the multi-radio gateway device to identify a first communication protocol for the first device from the plurality of types of wireless communication protocols supported by the multi-radio gateway device;
generating, by virtual gateway device of the server computing device, a first virtual device based at least in part on the first plurality of device attributes of the first device;
assigning, by the virtual gateway device, the first virtual device identifier to the first virtual device;
and
sending, by the virtual gateway device, the first virtual device identifier to the multi-radio gateway device.

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A system, comprising:

a remote server computing device executing a virtual gateway device associated with a multi-radio gateway device, wherein the virtual gateway device is to:
receive a request to initiate a first attribute update for a first device managed by the multi-radio gateway device;
generate a first instruction to initiate the first attribute update for the first device, the first instruction having a first format that is not associated with a first communication protocol used by the first device;
and
send the first instruction to the multi-radio gateway device associated with the virtual gateway device;
and
the multi-radio gateway device supporting a plurality of types of wireless communication protocols for communication with one or more devices connected to the multi-radio gateway device, the multi-radio gateway device comprising:
a first interface to connect to an internet protocol (IP) network;
a second interface having a first communication protocol to connect to the one or more devices, the one or more devices including the first device;
and
a processing device, connected with the first interface and the second interface, the processing device to:
receive the first instruction from the virtual gateway device of the remote server via the first interface;
determine the first attribute update and a first virtual device identifier associated with the first device from the first instruction, wherein the first virtual device identifier is used by the virtual gateway device of the remote server to uniquely identify the first device;
determine, based at least in part on the first virtual device identifier, the first communication protocol from the plurality of types of wireless communication protocols supported by the multi-radio gateway device and a first device identifier used by the multi-radio gateway device to uniquely identify the first device based at least in part on the first virtual device identifier;
generate a first command for the first device to perform the first attribute update, the first command having a second format based at least in part on the first communication protocol;
and
send the first command to the first device via the second interface.

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A computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

executing, by the processing device, a virtual gateway device associated with a multi-radio gateway device, the multi-radio gateway device supporting a plurality of types of wireless communication protocols for communication with one or more devices connected to the multi-radio gateway device;
receiving, by the processing device executing the virtual gateway device and from the multi-radio gateway device, a first device identifier of a first device managed by the multi-radio gateway device, wherein the first device identifier is used by the multi-radio gateway device to uniquely identify the first device, the one or more devices including the first device;
receiving, by the virtual gateway device and from the multi-radio gateway device, a first plurality of device attributes of the first device;
generating, by the processing device executing the virtual gateway device, a first virtual device identifier for the first device, wherein the first virtual device identifier is used by the virtual gateway device to uniquely identify the first device;
generating, by the processing device executing the virtual gateway device, a first virtual device based at least in part on the first plurality of device attributes of the first device and is to be used by the multi-radio gateway device to identify a first communication protocol for the first device from the plurality of types of wireless communication protocols supported by the multi-radio gateway device;
assigning, by the virtual gateway device, the first virtual device identifier to the first virtual device;
and
sending, by the virtual gateway device, the first virtual device identifier to the multi-radio gateway device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/251,505Filed 30 Aug 2016 · us provisional application
Priority: 31 Aug 2015
Published: US 2017/0064045 A12 Mar 2017
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04L 69/08
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…
H04L 69/18
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…
H04W 4/70
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or…
H04L 49/70
Packet switching elements: virtual switches

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Application62/212,450Us provisional application · filed 31 Aug 2015
US 2017/0064045 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 Mar 2017
US 10,484,512 B2This patent

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