Method and M2M gateway for managing data of terminal peripheral

• US 10,033,807 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2013
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Yang, Kun
• Primary Examiner(s): Mejia, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US14/437,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20150296009A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,821 Days
• Field of Search: 709224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1044 Group management mechanisms management of multicast group membership H04L12/185; reconfiguring of node membership in a computing system to eliminate errors G06F11/1425
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for managing data of a terminal peripheral, the method includes: a Machine to Machine/Man (M2M) gateway collects, stores, processes and forwards data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal peripherals according to a strategy; wherein the strategy is issued by an M2M application or an M2M service platform or is configured locally at the M2M gateway; the strategy includes at least a data collection strategy, a data storage strategy, a data processing strategy and a data forward strategy. Further disclosed is an M2M gateway for managing data of a terminal peripheral, configured to collect, store, process and forward data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal peripherals according to a strategy. By means of embodiments of the disclosure, managerial functions of the M2M gateway are perfected, thereby performing efficient management of data of the terminal peripheral.

Claims

1. A method for managing data of a terminal peripheral, comprising:

collecting, storing, processing and forwarding, by a Machine to Machine/Man (M2M) gateway, data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal speripherals according to strategies by establishing lists in stored data of the M2M gateway;

wherein the strategies are issued by an M2M application or an M2M service platform or is configured locally at the M2M gateway, and include at least a data collection strategy, a data storage strategy, a data processing strategy and a data forward strategy;

wherein the lists include at least a data screening list, a data collection list, a data storage list, a data priority list, and a data forward list, and the data screening list indicates data of the terminal peripheral and/or the group of terminal peripheral, which are desired to be collected by the M2M gateway, the data collection list indicates data to be collected by the M2M gateway, the data storage list indicates a type of data to be stored by the M2M gateway, the data priority list indicates a rank of data stored by the M2M gateway, and the data forward list indicates a destination to be forwarded of data retrieved by the M2M gateway;

wherein the method further comprises;

upon receiving the data forwarded, when detecting that the data meet a service trigger condition according to a service trigger threshold, performing, by the M2M gateway, an operation related to the controlling service according to a data application strategy by establishing a controlling service list to perform efficient management of data of the terminal peripheral and/or the group of terminal peripherals, wherein the controlling service list indicates the service trigger threshold of the M2M gateway;

wherein the processing the data comprises;

setting, by the M2M gateway, retrieval frequencies of data according to priorities of the data indicated in the data priority list to retrieve the data, the data having a higher rank being set with a higher retrieval frequency and the data having a lower rank being set with a lower retrieval frequency.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the collecting data comprises:

upon receiving data transmitted by the terminal peripheral and/or the group of terminal peripheral, screening, by the M2M gateway, the received data according to the data collection strategy by establishing the data screening list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, or acquiring data from different functional modules of the M2M gateway according to the data collection strategy by establishing the data screening list in the stored data of the M2M gateway.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storing data comprises:

storing, according to the data storage strategy by establishing the data storage list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, data collected by the M2M gateway in a specified storage manner including storage by category.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing data further comprises:

performing, on the data, at least one operation of retrieval, data query, data modification, data deletion and data backup.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the performing retrieval on the data comprises:

performing ranked retrieval, by the M2M gateway according to the data processing strategy by establishing the data priority list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, on data stored by category.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the forwarding data comprises:

forwarding, by the M2M gateway according to the data forward strategy by establishing the data forward list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, data from the ranked retrieval to a network and/or different functional modules of the M2M gateway.

12. The method according to claim 2, wherein the storing data comprises:

storing, according to the data storage strategy by establishing the data storage list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, data collected by the M2M gateway in a specified storage manner including storage by category.

13. The method according to claim 2, wherein the processing data further comprises:

performing, on the data, at least one operation of retrieval, data query, data modification, data deletion and data backup.

14. The method according to claim 2, wherein the forwarding data comprises:

forwarding, by the M2M gateway according to the data forward strategy by establishing the data forward list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, data from the ranked retrieval to a network and/or different functional modules of the M2M gateway.

7. A Machine to Machine/Man (M2M) gateway for managing data of a terminal peripheral, comprising:

a memory storing computer-executable instructions; and

one or more hardware processors executing the computer-executable instructions configured to collect, store, process and forward data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal peripherals according to strategies by establishing lists in stored data of the M2M gateway;

wherein the strategies are issued by an M2M application or an M2M service platform or is configured locally at the M2M gateway, and include at least a data collection strategy, a data storage strategy, a data processing strategy and a data forward strategy;

wherein the lists include at least a data screening list, a data collection list, a data storage list, a data priority list, and a data forward list, and the data screening list indicates data of the terminal peripheral and/or the group of terminal peripheral, which are desired to be collected by the M2M gateway, the data collection list indicates data to be collected by the M2M gateway, the data storage list indicates a type of data to be stored by the M2M gateway, the data priority list indicates a rank of data stored by the M2M gateway, and the data forward list indicates a destination to be forwarded of data retrieved by the M2M gateway;

wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to;

upon receiving the data forwarded, when it is detected that the data meet a service trigger condition according to a service trigger threshold, perform an operation related to the controlling service according to a data application strategy by establishing a controlling service list to perform efficient management of data of the terminal peripheral and/or the group of terminal peripherals, wherein the controlling service list indicates the service trigger threshold of the M2M gateway;

wherein the processing the data comprises;

setting retrieval frequencies of data according to priorities of the data indicated in the data priority list to retrieve the data, the data having a higher rank being set with a higher retrieval frequency and the data having a lower rank being set with a lower retrieval frequency.

8. The M2M gateway according to claim 7, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to, upon receiving data transmitted by the terminal peripheral and/or the group of terminal peripheral, screen the received data according to the data collection strategy by establishing the data screening list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, or acquire data from different functional modules of the M2M gateway according to the data collection strategy by establishing the data screening list in the stored data of the M2M gateway.

9. The M2M gateway according to claim 7, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to store, according to the data storage strategy by establishing the data storage list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, collected data in a specified storage manner including storage by category.

10. The M2M gateway according to claim 7, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to:

perform according to the data processing strategy, on the data, at least one operation of retrieval, data query, data modification, data deletion and data backup; and

perform ranked retrieval according to the data processing strategy by establishing the data priority list in the stored data of the M2M gateway on data stored by category.

11. The M2M gateway according to claim 7, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to forward, according to the data forward strategy by establishing the data forward list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, data from the ranked retrieval to a network and/or different functional modules of the M2M gateway.

15. The M2M gateway according to claim 8, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to store, according to the data storage strategy by establishing the data storage list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, collected data in a specified storage manner including storage by category.

16. The M2M gateway according to claim 8, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to:

perform according to the data processing strategy, on the data, at least one operation of retrieval, data query, data modification, data deletion and data backup; and

perform ranked retrieval according to the data processing strategy by establishing the data priority list in the stored data of the M2M gateway on data stored by category.

17. The M2M gateway according to claim 8, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to forward, according to the data forward strategy by establishing the data forward list in the stored data of the M2M gateway, data from the ranked retrieval to a network and/or different functional modules of the M2M gateway.