METHODS FOR HANDLING MULTIPLE DEVICE MANAGEMENT (DM) SERVER ADDRESSES IN A DM ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT OBJECT (MO)

• US 20130031262A1
• Filed: 07/25/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: YU, Chun-Ta, TSENG, Yin-Yeh
• Application Number:
  US13/557,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20130031262A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A method for handling multiple Device Management (DM) server addresses in a DM Account Management Object (MO) is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining, by a DM client, a plurality of DM server addresses and a reference to one or more of the DM server addresses or an empty value from the DM Account MO, and building, by the DM client, a DM session according to the reference.

Claims

1. A method for handling multiple Device Management (DM) server addresses in a DM Account Management Object (MO), comprising:

obtaining, by a DM client, a plurality of DM server addresses and a reference to one or more of the DM server addresses or an empty value from the DM Account MO; and

building, by the DM client, a DM session according to the reference.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a node in the DM Account MO for indicating one of the DM server addresses.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference is a URI address or IP address corresponding to one of the DM server addresses.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference comprises a list of URIs of nodes in the DM Account MO for indicating the DM server addresses in a specific order, and the building of the DM session is performed according to the specific order.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference comprises a list of URI addresses or IP addresses corresponding to the DM server addresses in a specific order, and the building of the DM session is performed according to the specific order.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising building, by the DM client, another DM session according to one of the unreferenced DM server addresses in the DM Account MO, in response to the building of the DM session according to the reference being failed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the DM session is built with another DM server address used for a previous DM session, in response to the reference being made to the empty value.

8. An electronic device, configured as a Device Management (DM) server, comprising:

first processor logic, initiating a bootstrap procedure for a DM client to create a DM Account Management Object (MO) comprising a plurality of DM server addresses and a reference to one or more of the DM server addresses or an empty value,

so that the DM client builds a DM session according to the reference.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the reference is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a node in the DM Account MO for indicating one of the DM server addresses.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the reference is a URI address or IP address corresponding to one of the DM server addresses.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the reference comprises a list of URIs of nodes in the DM Account MO for indicating the DM server addresses in a specific order, and the building of the DM session is performed according to the specific order.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the reference comprises a list of URI addresses or IP addresses corresponding to the DM server addresses in a specific order, and the building of the DM session is performed according to the specific order.

13. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the DM session is built with another DM server address used for a previous DM session, in response to the reference being made to the empty value.

14. An electronic device, configured as a Device Management (DM) client, comprising:

first processor logic, obtaining a plurality of DM server addresses and a reference to one or more of the DM server addresses or an empty value from a DM Account Management Object (MO); and

second processor logic, building a DM session according to the reference.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the reference is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a node in the DM Account MO for indicating one of the DM server addresses.

16. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the reference is a URI address or IP address corresponding to one of the DM server addresses.

17. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the reference comprises a list of URIs of nodes in the DM Account MO for indicating the DM server addresses in a specific order, and the building of the DM session is performed according to the specific order.

18. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the reference comprises a list of URI addresses or IP addresses corresponding to the DM server addresses in a specific order, and the building of the DM session is performed according to the specific order.

19. The electronic device of claim 14, further comprising third processor logic for building another DM session according to one of the unreferenced DM server addresses in the DM Account MO, in response to the building of the DM session according to the reference being failed.

20. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the DM session is built with another DM server address used for a previous DM session, in response to the reference being made to the empty value.