Device gateway

• US 10,547,710 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2018
• Issued: 01/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kuo, Calvin Yue-Ren, Sorenson, III, James Christopher, Rawcliffe, Alan Conrad, Krishnamoorthy, Shyam, Turow, Jonathan I., Argenti, Marco
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilles, Jude Jean
• Application Number:
  US15/886,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20180227388A1
• Time in Patent Office: 726 Days
• Field of Search: 709206, 709219, 709229, 709238, 709213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

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.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving on a cloud service provider, a communication from at least one device among a plurality of device types, the communication comprising a device identifier and information associated with a first function to perform related to the device;

generating by the cloud service provider, based at least in part on the device identifier, a request wherein the request specifies selection of the first function among one or more functions, the selection based on the information associated with the first function;

communicating the request to a process on the cloud service provider for performing the function, the process comprising rules for processing requests from devices for execution of the selected functions; and

sending a communication to the device based on the performance of the function on the cloud service provider.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the communication sent to the device causes a change to the operating status of device.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the information associated with the selected function comprises device state information.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the selected function comprises storing information in a data store for analysis.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the selected function comprises determining that the information is outside of a predefined range.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein communication is sent to the device according to at least one protocol, the protocol comprising Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure, Constrained Application Protocol, or Message Queue Telemetry Transport protocol.

7. A system, comprising a plurality of computing node within a cloud service provider network, at least one computing node among the plurality of computing nodes configured to at least:

receive a communication from a device comprising a device identifier and information associated with a first function;

generate, based the device identifier, a request wherein the request specifies selection of the first function among one or more functions based on the information associated with the first function;

communicate the request to a process on the cloud service provider network for performing the first function, the process applying rules for processing requests from devices for performing the first function; and

send a communication to the device based on the performance of the first function on the cloud service provider network.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the at least one computing node or another computing node among the plurality of computing nodes receives the communication from the device and wherein a second one of the at least one computing nodes processes the request.

9. The system as recited in claim 7 wherein the communication sent to the device causes a change operating status of device.

10. The system as recited in claim 7 wherein the information associated with the selected function comprises device state information.

11. The system as recited in claim 7 wherein the information is stored by at least one other computing node configured to store information in the service provider network.

12. The system as recited in claim 7 wherein the selected function comprises storing information in a data store for analysis.

13. The system as recited in claim 7 wherein the selected function comprises determining that the information is outside of a predefined range.

14. The system as recited in claim 7 wherein the cloud service provider network communicates with the device using Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure, Constrained Application Protocol, or Message Queue Telemetry Transport.

15. A cloud platform comprising a plurality of computing nodes and a data storage node configured, the cloud platform configured to at least:

receive at a first computing node of the plurality of computing nodes a communication from a device comprising a device identifier and information associated with a function;

generate at a second computing node of the plurality of computing nodes, based the device identifier, a request for one or more operations to be performed, wherein the request specifies selection of the function from one or more functions based on the information associated with the function;

communicate the request to a process operating on at least one of the plurality of computing nodes, wherein the at least one of the plurality of computing nodes is configured to perform the one or more operation associated with the selected function;

send, by way of the first computing node or another of the plurality of computing nodes, a communication to the device based on the performance of the function on the cloud service platform.

16. The cloud platform as recited in claim 15, wherein a third one of the plurality of computing nodes performs the operations.

17. The cloud platform as recited in claim 16 wherein the communication sent to the device causes a change operating status of device.

18. The cloud platform as recited in claim 16 wherein the information associated with the function comprises device state information.

19. The cloud platform as recited in claim 16 wherein the selected function comprises storing information in the data storage node for analysis.

20. The cloud platform as recited in claim 19 wherein the data storage node comprises a database.