US 2019/0097989 A1Published application

Device communication environment

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAlan Conrad Rawcliffe, Samuel John Young, Shyam Krishnamoorthy, Marco Argenti, Jonathan I. Turow, Calvin Yue-Ren Kuo, James Christopher Sorenson, III

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Abstract

A computing environment is disclosed that receives from devices requests directed toward services accessible in the environment, and that forwards communications from services in the environment to devices registered with the environment. During a registration process at the environment, devices are assigned a device identifier that is used to identify and authenticate each particular device and requests communicated from and to the device via the environment. The computing environment maintains state information for each device that has been registered with the system. As the device interacts with the system, the state information is updated to reflect the changes in the device. When requests to perform functions are received from devices, the computing environment determines for the particular device and the particular function requested what processing needs to be performed by the environment in response to the request.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

registering a plurality of devices with a device security server, the device security server comprising an identifier for each of the plurality of devices;
maintaining, at a shadow server, for each of the plurality of devices, data identifying a state;
receiving, at the shadow server, a state request to update data identifying a state for a device in the plurality of devices;
updating, at the shadow server, for the device in the plurality of devices, data identifying a state;
receiving, at a gateway server, a device request from the device in a plurality of devices, the device request comprising a device identifier identifying the device from which the device request was received;
authenticating, at the device security server, the device in the plurality of devices;
identifying, at a device registry server, for the device request, and using the device identifier, a service function corresponding to the request;
and
generating, at a dispatcher server, for the identified service function a service request to perform the identified service function on a service system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/116,719Filed 29 Aug 2018
Priority: 30 Jun 2015
Published: 28 Mar 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

H04L 63/08
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for authentication of entities
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
H04L
Digital communication

Family

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