Device interconnection and service discovery via a communication cloud

A system for interconnecting network enabled devices, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
• generate a key with a device based on a subnet address of the device, and send the key to a server, wherein the device is coupled with the server via a network routing device;
• request session information of a session from the server;
• generate the session with the server using a two-step function that operates on both the key and an IP address of the network routing device, and send the session information to the device, wherein the session information is a result of generating the session, wherein generating the session includes determining the IP address, sending the IP address to the server and parsing a response from the server to retrieve identification information, wherein the session information includes data directing assignment of the device to a designated communication cloud;
• connect the device to the designated communication cloud using the session information, wherein the device includes an application assigned a unique name, wherein the unique name comprises a current time in milliseconds appended to a host IP address, wherein the designated communication cloud is designated by one of manual discovery and automatic discovery, wherein the manual discovery is permitted when a special code is entered into the device to redirect the device from an originally designated cloud to a desired cloud;
• and
• advertise one or more available services over a chat room, wherein advertising the one or more available services is performed by sending a service advertisement message;
• and
• at least one of process a service and ignore a service, wherein the service is at least one of Jabber and MovieIQ, wherein the service includes service information comprising a first property which is a unique code generated for each connecting session, an organization property for identifying an organization, an application property for identifying an application, a language property for language settings and a Jabber ID for generating/joining a designated Jabber chat room.

A computer program product for interconnecting network enabled devices, comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium tangibly embodying non-transitory computer executable program instructions thereon that, when executed, cause a computing device to:

• generate a key with a device based on a subnet address of the device, and send the key to a server, wherein the device is coupled with the server via a network routing device;
• request session information of a session from the server;
• generate the session with the server using a two-step function that operates on both the key and an IP address of the network routing device, and send the session information to the device, wherein the session information is a result of generating the session, wherein generating the session includes determining the IP address, sending the IP address to the server and parsing a response from the server to retrieve identification information, wherein the session information includes data directing assignment of the device to a designated communication cloud;
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• connect the device to the designated communication cloud using the session information, wherein the device includes an application assigned a unique name, wherein the unique name comprises a current time in milliseconds appended to a host IP address, wherein the designated communication cloud is designated by one of manual discovery and automatic discovery, wherein the manual discovery is permitted when a special code is entered into the device to redirect the device from an originally designated cloud to a desired cloud;
• and
• advertise one or more available services over a chat room, wherein advertising the one or more available services is performed by sending a service advertisement message;
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• at least one of process a service and ignore a service, wherein the service is at least one of Jabber and MovieIQ, wherein the service includes service information comprising a first property which is a unique code generated for each connecting session, an organization property for identifying an organization, an application property for identifying an application, a language property for language settings and a Jabber ID for generating/joining a designated Jabber chat room.

A system for interconnecting network enabled devices, comprising:

• a server;
• a local area network (LAN) coupled with the server;
• and
• a computing device configured to generate a key based on a subnet address of the computing device and send the key to the server, the computing device further configured to request session information of a session from the server, wherein the computing device is coupled with the server via the LAN;
• wherein the server generates the session using a two-step function that operates on both the key and an IP address of the LAN and sends the session information to the computing device,
• wherein the session information is a result of generating the session, and further wherein the computing device establishes a communication link to a designated communication cloud with the session information, wherein generating the session includes determining the IP address, sending the IP address to the server and parsing a response from the server to retrieve identification information, wherein the session information includes data directing assignment of the computing device to a designated communication cloud, wherein the computing device includes an application assigned a unique name, wherein the unique name comprises a current time in milliseconds appended to a host IP address, wherein the designated communication cloud is designated by one of manual discovery and automatic discovery, wherein the manual discovery is permitted when a special code is entered into the device to redirect the device from an originally designated cloud to a desired cloud, wherein the computing device advertises one or more available services over a chat room, wherein advertising the one or more available services is performed by sending a service advertisement message;
• and wherein the server implements at least one of processing a service and ignoring a service, wherein the service is at least one of Jabber and MovieIQ, wherein the service includes service information comprising a first property which is a unique code generated for each connecting session, an organization property for identifying an organization, an application property for identifying an application, a language property for language settings and a Jabber ID for generating/joining a designated Jabber chat room.