SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTING AD HOC PICONETS TO WIDE AREA NETWORKS

• US 20090232047A1
• Filed: 03/14/2008
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ajamu A. Wesley, Brent A. Miller, Jamel P. Lynch Jr
• Original Assignee: Ajamu A. Wesley, Brent A. Miller, Jamel P. Lynch Jr
• Inventors: Wesley, Ajamu A., Miller, Brent A., Lynch, Jamel P. JR.
• Application Number:
  US12/049,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20090232047A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/22 with access to wired networks

Abstract

A hyper-scatternet includes a first ad hoc piconet, a second ad hoc piconet and a wide area network, wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network. Each ad hoc piconet can include an application server that includes an ad hoc piconet interface that is configured to communicate with an ad hoc piconet using an ad hoc piconet protocol, and a wide area network interface that is configured to communicate with a wide area network using a wide area network protocol. The application server also includes a service manifest that is configured to determine ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, and to advertise the ad hoc piconet services to the wide area network as wide area network services via the wide area network interface.

Claims

1. An application server comprising:

an ad hoc piconet interface that is configured to communicate with an ad hoc piconet using ad hoc piconet protocol;

a wide area network interface that is configured to communicate with a wide area network using wide area network protocol; and

a service manifest that is configured to determine first ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface and to advertise the first ad hoc piconet services to the wide area network as first wide area network services via the wide area network interface and/or to determine second wide area network services that are available from the wide area network via the wide area network interface and to advertise the second wide area network services to the ad hoc piconet as second ad hoc piconet services via the ad hoc piconet interface.

2. An application server according to claim 1 further comprising:

a service invocation authority that is responsive to a first service invocation for a first service that is received from a first client in the wide area network via the wide area network interface, to map the first service invocation to the ad hoc piconet protocol, to invoke the first service on the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, to receive a first response from the ad hoc piconet and to provide the first response to the first client using the wide area network protocol via the wide area network interface, and/or is responsive to a second service invocation for a second service that is received from a second client in the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, to map the second service invocation to the wide area network protocol, to invoke the second service on the wide area network via the wide area network interface, to receive a second response from the wide area network and to provide the second response to the second client using the ad hoc piconet protocol via the ad hoc piconet interface.

3. An application server according to claim 1 wherein the service manifest is further configured to aggregate ad hoc piconet services that are available from multiple clients that are connected to the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface and to advertise the ad hoc piconet services that are aggregated to the wide area network as wide area network services via the wide area network interface.

4. An application server according to claim 1 wherein the wide area network comprises the World Wide Web, a grid computing network and/or a universal plug and play network.

5. A hyper scatternet comprising:

a first ad hoc piconet;

a second ad hoc piconet; and

a wide area network;

wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network;

wherein each of the first and second ad hoc piconets comprises;

an ad hoc piconet interface that is configured to communicate with the ad hoc piconet using ad hoc piconet protocol;

a wide area network interface that is configured to communicate with the wide area network using wide area network protocol; and

a service manifest that is configured to determine first ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface and to advertise the first ad hoc piconet services to the wide area network as first wide area network services via the wide area network interface and/or to determine second wide area network services that are available from the wide area network via the wide area network interface and to advertise the second wide area network services to the ad hoc piconet as second ad hoc piconet services via the ad hoc piconet interface.

6. A hyper-scatternet according to claim 5 wherein the service manifest is further configured to aggregate ad hoc piconet services that are available from multiple clients that are connected to the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface and to advertise the ad hoc piconet services that are aggregated to the wide area network as wide area network services via the wide area network interface.

7. A hyper scatternet according to claim 5 wherein the wide area network comprises the World Wide Web, a grid computing network and/or a universal plug and play network.

8. An ad hoc piconet application server comprising:

an ad hoc piconet interface that is configured to communicate with an ad hoc piconet using an ad hoc piconet protocol;

a grid computing network interface that is configured to communicate with a grid computing network using Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) protocol; and

a service manifest that is configured to determine first ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface and to advertise the first ad hoc piconet services to the grid computing network as first grid computing network services via the grid computing network interface and/or to determine second grid computing network services that are available from the grid computing network via the grid computing network interface and to advertise the second grid computing network services to the ad hoc piconet as second ad hoc piconet services via the ad hoc piconet interface.

9. An ad hoc piconet server according to claim 8 further comprising:

a service invocation authority that is responsive to a first service invocation for a first service that is received from a first client in the grid computing network via the grid computing network interface, to map the first service invocation to the ad hoc piconet protocol, to invoke the first service on the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, to receive a first response from the ad hoc piconet and to provide the first response to the first client using the OGSA protocol via the grid computing network interface, and/or responsive to a second service invocation for a second service that is received from a second client in the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, to map the second service invocation to the OGSA protocol, to invoke the second service on the grid computing network via the grid computing network interface, to receive a second response from the grid computing network and to provide the second response to the second client using the ad hoc piconet protocol via the ad hoc piconet interface.

10. An ad hoc piconet server according to claim 8 wherein the service manifest is further configured to aggregate ad hoc piconet services that are available from multiple clients that are connected to the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface and to advertise the ad hoc piconet services that are aggregated to the grid computing network as grid computing network services via the grid computing network interface.