SERVICE BROKER SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS

• US 20130111550A1
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Naveh, Gadi, Avtar, Rishi, Udapudi, Ritesh, Ordaz, Fermin
• Granted Patent: US 9,477,517 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/468 Specific access rights for resources, e.g. using capability register
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

In one implementation, a service broker system includes an authentication module to authenticate a plurality of devices with an account from a plurality of accounts of the service broker system based on a unique identifier of each device from the plurality of devices. Each device from the plurality of devices is associated with the account. The service broker system also includes a service access module to access data at a plurality of services using credentials stored at the account, and a delivery module to provide the data to each device from the plurality of devices.

Claims

1. A service broker system, comprising:

an authentication module to authenticate a plurality of devices with an account from a plurality of accounts of the service broker system based on a unique identifier of each device from the plurality of devices, each device from the plurality of devices associated with the account;

a service access module to access data at a plurality of services using credentials stored at the account; and

a delivery module to provide the data to each device from the plurality of devices.

2. The service broker system of claim 1, wherein:

the service access module is a first service access module;

the plurality of services is a first plurality of services of a first service type;

the delivery module is a first delivery module; and

the data is first data accessed at the first plurality of services;

the service broker system further comprising;

a second service access module to access second data at a second plurality of services using credentials stored at the account, the second plurality of services of a second service type different from the first service type; and

a second delivery module to provide the second data to each device from the plurality of devices.

3. The service broker system of claim 1, further comprising a request module to receive a service request from a device from the plurality of devices, the service access module accesses the data at the plurality of services in response to the service request.

4. The service broker system of claim 1, further comprising a request module to receive a service request from a device from the plurality of devices, the delivery module provides the data to each device from the plurality of devices response to the service request.

5. The service broker system of claim 1, wherein the delivery modules provides the data to each device from the plurality of devices independent of a service request.

6. The service broker system of claim 1, further comprising an association module to associate each device from the plurality of devices with the account.

7. The service broker system of claim 1, wherein the delivery module provides the data to each device from the plurality of devices via a persistent messaging protocol.

8. A method, comprising:

providing a plurality of device descriptors to a user, each device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors representing a device associated with an account at a service broker system;

receiving an identifier of a device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors;

accessing data associated with the device represented by the device descriptor at the account; and

providing the data to a new device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the data includes content.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the data includes configuration data.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the data includes an application.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the identifier is a first identifier, the device descriptor is a first device descriptor and the data is first data, the method further comprising:

receiving a second identifier of a second device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors;

accessing second data associated with the device represented by the second device descriptor at the account; and

providing the second data to the new device.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the providing the plurality of device descriptors to the user includes providing the plurality of device descriptors to the new device.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising associating the new device with the account at the service broker system before the providing the plurality of device descriptors to the user.

15. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:

receive an association request relative to a first account of a service broker system from a new device including a unique identifier of the new device;

determine that the new device is associated with second account of the service broker system;

disassociate the new device from the second account; and

associate the new device with the first account.

16. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, wherein disassociating the new device from the second account includes revoking a token stored at the new device.

17. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:

provide a plurality of device descriptors to a user, each device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors representing a device associated with the account other than the new device;

receive an identifier of a device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors from the new device; and

provide data from the account to the new device, the data associated with the device represented by the device descriptor.

18. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:

provide a plurality of device descriptors to a user, each device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors representing a device associated with the account other than the new device;

receive a first identifier of a first device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors from the new device;

receive a second identifier of a second device descriptor from the plurality of device descriptors from the new device;

provide data from the account to the new device, the data including first data associated with the first device represented by the first device descriptor and second data associated with the second device represented by the second device descriptor.

19. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:

access data at a plurality of services using credentials stored at the account; and

provide the data to a plurality of devices associated with the account, the plurality of devices including the new device.

20. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:

access data at a plurality of services using credentials stored at the account; and

push the data to a plurality of devices associated with the account, the plurality of devices including the new device.