METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROWSING THINGS OF INTERNET OF THINGS ON IP USING WEB PLATFORM

• US 20140047322A1
• Filed: 03/05/2013
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: KIM, Daeyoung, Giang, Ky Nam, HA, Minkeun, KWON, Kiwoong
• Application Number:
  US13/785,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20140047322A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

Provided is a method and system for browsing Internet of Things (IoT) so as to browse resource-limited things with rich UI. The method includes; at a user terminal, recognizing tag information attached to an intelligent thing and confirming an address of a things domain corresponding to the tag information via a dynamic domain name system (DDNS) server; accessing the intelligent thing based on the address of the things domain and acquiring a default web page; at the user terminal, accessing a fixed content provision server and receiving fixed content of the default web page; and, at the user terminal, acquiring dynamic content to be displayed on a web page via the intelligent thing.

Claims

1. A method of browsing Internet of Things (IoT) comprising:

at a user terminal, recognizing tag information attached to an intelligent thing and confirming an address of a things domain corresponding to the tag information via a dynamic domain name system (DDNS) server;

accessing the intelligent thing based on the address of the things domain and acquiring a default web page;

at the user terminal, accessing a fixed content provision server and receiving fixed content of the default web page; and

at the user terminal, acquiring dynamic content to be displayed on a web page via the intelligent thing.

2. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 1, wherein the fixed content include thing-scripts, web templates and frame-scripts.

3. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 2, wherein said receiving the fixed content includes:

at the user terminal, receiving thing-script corresponding to the default web page from the fixed content provision server and generating an iframe having a thing'"'"'s identifier and origin; and

at the user terminal, receiving web template and frame-script from the fixed content provision server using the things'"'"' identifier and origin of the iframe.

4. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 3, wherein said receiving the fixed content further includes, at the user terminal, receiving web browser Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) plug-in installation information from the fixed content provision server and installing a web browser CoAP plug-in under control of the thing-script.

5. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 2, wherein said acquiring the dynamic content includes:

at the frame-script, requesting that the thing-script provide real-time information of a thing;

at the thing-script, acquiring and providing the real-time information of the thing to the frame-script via the intelligent thing; and

at the frame script, displaying the real-time information of the thing on the web template.

6. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 5, wherein said acquiring and providing the real-time information of the thing to the frame-script via the intelligent thing includes:

at the user terminal, performing CoAP communication with the intelligent thing via a hypertext markup language 5 (HTML5) WebSocket-based CoAP-CoAP (WSCoAP) proxy and acquiring the real-time information of the thing, if the WSCoAP proxy corresponding to the intelligent thing is present.

7. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 5, wherein said acquiring and providing the real-time information of the thing to the frame-script via the intelligent thing includes:

at the user terminal, performing CoAP communication with the intelligent thing via a web browser CoAP plug-in and acquiring the real-time information of the thing, if a hypertext markup language 5 (HTML5) WebSocket-based CoAP-CoAP (WSCoAP) proxy corresponding to the intelligent thing is not present and the web browser CoAP plug-in is installed.

8. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 5, wherein said acquiring and providing the real-time information of the thing to the frame-script via the intelligent thing includes:

at the user terminal, acquiring the real-time information of the thing provided by the intelligent thing via an XMLHttpRequest object, if a hypertext markup language 5 (HTML5) WebSocket-based CoAP-CoAP (WSCoAP) proxy corresponding to the intelligent thing is not present and the web browser CoAP plug-in is not installed.

9. The method of browsing IoT according to claim 5, wherein the thing-script and the frame-script are hypertext markup language 5 (HTML5) Cross document messaging Application Program Interface (CDM API)-powered JavaScript and transmits and receives a message via the HTML5 CDM API.

10. A system for browsing Internet of things (IoT) comprising:

an intelligent thing providing a default web page of a things domain and dynamic content corresponding to the default web page;

a fixed content provision server providing fixed content corresponding to the default web page; and

a user terminal accessing the intelligent thing to acquire the default web page, acquiring fixed content via the fixed content provision server and acquiring only the dynamic content via the intelligent thing.

11. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 10, wherein the intelligent thing includes:

a lightweight web server providing the default web page of the things domain using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP); and

a Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) server providing the dynamic content using a CoAP.

12. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 11, wherein the lightweight web server further includes a function for providing the dynamic content instead of the CoAP server, if a web browser is not able to perform CoAP communication.

13. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 11, wherein the user terminal includes a web browser acquiring default web page of the lightweight web server and static content of the fixed content provision server using the HTTP, requesting to provide the static content, and displaying the static content provided in response to the request.

14. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 11, wherein the user terminal further includes a web browser CoAP plug-in acquiring and providing dynamic content provided by the CoAP server to the web browser using the CoAP according to the request of the web browser.

15. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 14, wherein the web browser CoAP plug-in works as a Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) plug-in and an Active-x controller and includes a user datagram protocol (UDP) transportation stack and a CoAP client stack.

16. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 14, wherein the web browser further includes a function for accessing the lightweight web server via an XMLHttpRequest object and acquiring the dynamic content if the web browser CoAP plug-in is not available.

17. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 10, further comprising:

a hypertext markup language 5 (HTML5) WebSocket-based CoAP-CoAP (WSCoAP) proxy supporting CoAP communication with the intelligent thing; and

a web application server providing an address of the WSCoAP proxy and a web browser CoAP client supporting communication between the web browser and the WSCoAP proxy to the user terminal accessing a web site while managing the web site providing an IoT service.

A heterogeneous repeater (the gateway) providing an address of the WSCoAP proxy to the thing and the thing inserting the address into its own homepage therefore knowing directly to user terminal'"'"'s web browser.

18. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 17, wherein the WSCoAP proxy includes:

a UDP socket transmitting and receiving a CoAP message to and from the intelligent thing via a UDP based CoAP; and

a web socket transmitting and receiving a WSCoAP packet to and from the user terminal via a HTML5 web socket protocol and performing a message conversion operation between the WSCoAP packet and the CoAP message.

19. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 18, wherein the WSCoAP packet is a CoAP message in which a WSCoAP header having information about a destination address of the CoAP message is inserted, and the WSCoAP header includes a length field for storing length information of the destination address and a destination address field for storing the destination address.

20. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 17, wherein the user terminal includes a web browser acquiring a default web page of the lightweight web server and static content of the fixed content provision server using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), communicating with the WSCoAP proxy using the address of the WSCoAP proxy and the web browser CoAP client received from the web site, and acquiring the static content of the intelligent thing.

21. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 10, wherein the fixed content provision server includes:

fixed content including a plurality of thing-scripts, web templates and frame-scripts;

a thing-script provision unit selecting and downloading thing-script corresponding to the default page to the user terminal; and

a template selection unit selecting and providing one of web-template and frame-script based on a thing'"'"'s identifier and origin acquired by the thing-script downloaded to the user terminal.

22. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 10, wherein the frame-script requests that the thing-script provide real-time information of a thing and displays static content received in response to the request on a web template.

23. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 22, wherein the thing-script and the frame-script are hypertext markup language 5 (HTML5) Cross document messaging Application Program Interface (CDM API)-powered JavaScript and transmits and receives a message via the HTML5 CDM API.

24. The system for browsing IoT according to claim 21, wherein the fixed content provision server further includes a web browser CoAP plug-in installation unit downloading web browser CoAP plug-in installation information to the user terminal and installing a web browser CoAP plug-in.