US 11,687,331 B2Granted

Internet-of-things device blank

AssigneeIntel Corporation

InventorsAtif Hussein, Trina Ward, Patricia Robb

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Abstract

System and techniques for an internet-of-things device blank are described herein. An IoT blank device may be tested to determine whether it is in an initial state. In response to a determination that the IoT blank device is in the initial state, a cloud endpoint may be contacted, via a transceiver, to retrieve a package. Here, the contact includes a message with an identifier of the IoT blank device. The package may be received, the package including an application. The package may be installed. The installation including registering the application with a message queue of the IoT blank device. The application may also be run after installation. Data from the application running on the IoT blank device may be received via a message queue. The data may then be transmitted to the cloud endpoint via the transceiver of the IoT blank device.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A network processing system operating on a network carrier, comprising:

a processor;
communication circuitry coupled to the processor configured to communicate with an Internet of Things (IoT) device;
and
memory, including instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate the communication circuitry to:
transmit a message to a message queue of the IoT device, the message to instruct the IoT device to determine whether the IoT device is in an initial state by reading an initialization register of the IoT device, the initialization register being a hardware component of the IoT device set to the initial state to indicate that the IoT device is not configured;
receive a response from the IoT device responsive to the transmitted message, the response including:
an indication of a determination that the IoT device is in the initial state;
an indication obtained directly from a communication component of the IoT device, wherein the communication component of the IoT device is remote from the network carrier, the indication including a unique identifier of the IoT device;
and
a request for configuration information;
receive data from the IoT device corresponding to a sensor on the IoT device;
locate, using the unique identifier of the IoT device and the data received corresponding to the sensor, an application to send to the IoT device;
and
transmit a package including the application and a library to the IoT device, wherein the library includes a device driver to control the sensor, and wherein the application is configured to be registered with the message queue of the IoT device.

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A method for using a network processing system operating on a network carrier, the method comprising:

transmitting a message to a message queue of an Internet of Things (IoT) device, the message to instruct the IoT device to determine whether the IoT device is in a blank state by reading an initial state register of the IoT device, the initial state register being a hardware component of the IoT device set to the initial state to indicate that the IoT device is not configured;
receiving a response from the IoT device responsive to the transmitted message, the response including:
an indication of a determination that the IoT device is in the blank state;
an indication obtained directly from a communication component of the IoT device, wherein the communication component of the IoT device is remote from the network carrier, the indication including a unique identifier of the IoT device;
and
a request for configuration information;
receiving data from the IoT device corresponding to a sensor on the IoT device;
locating, using the unique identifier of the IoT device and the data received corresponding to the sensor, an application to send to the IoT device;
and
transmitting a package including the application and a library to the IoT device, wherein the library includes a device driver to control the sensor, wherein the application is configured to be registered with the message queue of the IoT device.

7 more elements

At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor of a network processing system operating on a network carrier, cause the processor to:

transmit a message to a message queue of an Internet of Things (IoT) device, the message to instruct the IoT device to determine whether the IoT device is in an initial state by reading an initialization register of the IoT device, the initialization register being a hardware component of the IoT device set to the initial state to indicate that the IoT device is not configured;
receive a response from the IoT device responsive to the transmitted message, the response including:
an indication of a determination that the IoT device is in the initial state;
an indication obtained directly from a communication component of the IoT device, wherein the communication component of the IoT device is remote from the network carrier, the indication including a unique identifier of the IoT device;
and
a request for configuration information;
receive data from the IoT device corresponding to a sensor on the IoT device;
locate, using the unique identifier of the IoT device and the data received corresponding to the sensor, an application to send to the IoT device;
and
transmit a package including the application and a library to the IoT device, wherein the library includes a device driver to control the sensor, and wherein the application is configured to be registered with the message queue of the IoT device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/687,952Filed 7 Mar 2022 · continuation
Priority: 19 Feb 2016
Published: US 2022/0261233 A118 Aug 2022
Granted: 27 Jun 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 8/61
Software deployment: installation
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
H04L 67/12
Protocols: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in…
H04L 67/34
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: involving the movement of software or configuration parameters

Family

Application62/297,316Us provisional application · filed 19 Feb 2016
Application15/085,593Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Mar 2016
Application16/390,242Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Apr 2019
Application17/068,024Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Oct 2020
US 2022/0261233 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Aug 2022
US 11,269,608 B2Parent of this continuation
US 10,809,995 B2Parent of this continuation
US 10,310,832 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0242674 A1Published application
US 2019/0384584 A1Published application
US 2021/0216298 A1Published application
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