System and method for a dynamic connectivity update system

• US 10,349,260 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2017
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Plasma Business Intelligence, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Plasma Computing Group Incorporated
• Inventors: Khan, Yasser, Ramu, Mahesh
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoang, Thai D
• Application Number:
  US15/721,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20190104397A1
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 370338
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• 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: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/248 Connectivity information update
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system and method for interacting with low-powered devices. The system includes a server and a gateway device that connect and communicate with low-powered devices. The system and method connects a user through a gateway device to a low-powered device by temporarily loading a profile for the low-powered device onto the gateway device. The profile of the low-powered device contains the necessary connection information to facilitate a connection. The profile of the low-powered device is only temporarily stored on the gateway device and is deleted from the memory of the gateway device after a connection is established.

Claims

1. A system for interacting with low-powered devices, comprising:

a server containing at least one processor configured to;

generate a user profile for a user on the server;

add a low-powered device profile on the server, wherein the low-powered device profile includes connection information and a set of commands for interacting with the low-powered device;

a gateway containing at least one processor configured to;

receive the user profile from the server to log-in the user;

download the low-powered device profile for the low-powered device to the gateway from the server;

store the low-powered device profile for the low-powered device in a memory portion of the gateway;

search a zone within connectivity range of the gateway to detect the low-powered device;

validate that the low-powered device detected corresponds to the low-powered device profile stored on the gateway;

connect the gateway to the low-powered device based on the connection information and the device definition within the low-powered device profile;

interact with the low-powered device by issuing commands and receiving responses using information provided by the server; and

delete the low-powered device profile stored in the memory portion of the gateway.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the connection information is temporarily stored in the memory portion of the gateway and deleted each time the gateway is shut-down, powered-off, or when the user is logged-off the gateway.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the device definition of the low-powered device includes a friendly name, a friendly channel, a general attribute profile and a media access control address.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the gateway includes a graphical user interface for performing the connection, identification, issuance of commands, and data mapping to a low-powered device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the graphical user interface includes a connection interface for enabling connection to the low-powered device.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the graphical user interface includes an identification interface for setting up how to identify the low-powered device by using a device identifier, a definition of the data type, and an IMEI of the data type.

7. A method for interacting with low-powered devices, comprising:

generating a user profile for a user on the server;

adding a low-powered device profile on the server, wherein the low-powered device profile includes connection information and a set of commands for interacting with a low-powered device;

logging in the user to a gateway with the user profile;

downloading the low-powered device profile for the low-powered device to the gateway from the server;

storing the low-powered device profile for the low-powered device in a memory portion of the gateway;

searching a zone within connectivity range of the gateway to detect the low-powered device;

validating that the low-powered device detected corresponds to the low-powered device profile of stored on the gateway;

connecting the gateway to the low-powered device based on the connection information and the device definition within the low-powered device profile;

interacting with the low-powered device by issuing commands and receiving responses using information provided by the server; and

deleting the low-powered device profile stored in the memory portion of the gateway.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the connection information is temporarily stored in the memory portion of the gateway and deleted each time the gateway is shut-down, powered-off, or when the user is logged-off the gateway.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the device definition of the low-powered device includes a friendly name, a friendly channel, a general attribute profile and a media access control address.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the gateway includes a graphical user interface for performing the connection, identification, issuance of commands, and data mapping to a low-powered device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface includes a connection interface for enabling connection to the low-powered device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface includes an identification interface for setting up how to identify the low-powered device by using a device identifier, a definition of the data type, and an IMEI of the data type.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

instructions for generating a user profile for a user on a server;

instructions for adding a low-powered device profile on the server, wherein the low-powered device profile includes connection information and a device definition for a low-powered device;

instructions for logging in the user to a gateway with the user profile;

instructions for downloading the low-powered device profile for the low-powered device to the gateway from the server;

instructions for storing the low-powered device profile for the low-powered device in a memory portion of the gateway;

searching a zone within connectivity range of the gateway to detect the low-powered device;

instructions for validating that the low-powered device detected corresponds to the low-powered device profile of stored on the gateway;

instructions for connecting the gateway to the low-powered device based on the connection information and the device definition within the low-powered device profile;

instructions for interacting with the low-powered device by issuing commands and receiving responses using information provided by the server; and

instructions for deleting the low-powered device profile stored in the memory portion of the gateway.