METHOD AND CLIENT FOR ACQUIRING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE RESOURCES AND MACHINE-TO-MACHINE RESOURCE APPARATUS

• US 20140359133A1
• Filed: 07/29/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tian, Linyi, Yue, Peiyu
• Application Number:
  US14/445,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20140359133A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/72 using reservation actions during connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for acquiring machine-to-machine resources, including: receiving a resource acquisition request sent by a client, and acquiring multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request; acquiring resource data on resource devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers; and encapsulating the acquired resource data into a message and sending the message to the client. Therefore, multiple resource identifiers may be sent at a time, and the resource data returned by the resource devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers is sent to a requester by using one message. The resource data is acquired quickly and efficiency of acquiring the resource data is high.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring machine-to-machine resources, the method comprising:

receiving, by a resource apparatus, a resource acquisition request sent by a client device, and acquiring multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request;

acquiring, by the resource apparatus, resource data on resource devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers; and

encapsulating, by the resource apparatus, the acquired resource data into a message and sending the message to the client device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the resource acquisition request comprises mnemonic symbols of the resource identifiers; and

acquiring multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request comprises;

searching, according to the mnemonic symbols of the resource identifiers, for the resource identifiers corresponding to the mnemonic symbols of the resource identifiers.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the resource acquisition request comprises the multiple resource identifiers; and

acquiring multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request comprises;

parsing the resource acquisition request to acquire the multiple resource identifiers.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the resource acquisition request comprises a group identifier of a group to which the multiple resource identifiers belong; and

acquiring multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request comprises;

parsing the group identifier of the group to which the multiple resource identifiers belong in the resource acquisition request, and

acquiring the multiple resource identifiers corresponding to the group identifier of the group to which the resource identifiers belong.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the resource data reported by the resource devices corresponding to the resource identifiers; and

wherein acquiring resource data on resource devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers comprises;

determining the received resource data reported by the resource devices corresponding to the resource identifiers, as the resource data on the resource devices corresponding to the resource identifiers.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

setting, for the resource devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers, a validity period of returning the resource data; and

wherein encapsulating the acquired resource data into a message and sending the message to the client device comprises;

encapsulating the resource data that is returned by the resource devices corresponding to the resource identifiers and received within the validity period into the message and sending the message to the client device.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein before receiving the resource acquisition request sent by the client device, the method further comprises:

receiving a resource device metadata acquisition request sent by the client device; and

acquiring resource device metadata according to the resource device metadata acquisition request, and sending the resource device metadata to the client device.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein:

the resource device metadata comprises the group identifier of the group to which the resource identifiers belong.

9. A method for acquiring machine-to-machine resources, the method comprising:

sending, by a client device, a resource acquisition request to a server, so that the server acquires multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request;

receiving, by the client device, resource data, returned by the server, on devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers; and

wherein the resource data is acquired by the server, according to the multiple resource identifiers, from the resource devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein:

the resource acquisition request comprises the multiple resource identifiers; and

acquiring multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request comprises;

parsing the resource acquisition request to acquire the multiple resource identifiers.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein:

the resource acquisition request comprises a group identifier of a group to which the multiple resource identifiers belong; and

acquiring multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request comprises;

parsing, by the server, the group identifier of the group to which the multiple resource identifiers belong, and

acquiring the multiple resource identifiers corresponding to the group identifier of the group to which the resource identifiers belong.

12. A resource apparatus, comprising:

a first receiving unit, configured to receive are source acquisition request sent by a client device, and acquire multiple resource identifiers according to the resource acquisition request;

a resource acquiring unit, configured to acquire resource data on resource devices corresponding to the multiple resource identifiers; and

a first sending unit, configured to encapsulate the acquired resource data into a message and send the message to the client device.

13. The resource apparatus according to claim 12, wherein:

the resource acquisition request received by the first receiving unit comprises mnemonic symbols of the resource identifiers; and

the resource apparatus further comprises;

a parsing unit configured to search, according to the mnemonic symbols of the resource identifiers, for the resource identifiers corresponding to the mnemonic symbols of the resource identifiers, and send the acquired multiple resource identifiers to the resource acquiring unit.

14. The resource apparatus according to claim 12, wherein:

the resource acquisition request received by the first receiving unit comprises the multiple resource identifiers; and

the apparatus further comprises;

a parsing unit configured to parse the resource acquisition request to acquire the multiple resource identifiers.

15. The resource apparatus according to claim 12, wherein:

the resource acquisition request received by the first receiving unit comprises a group identifier of a group to which the multiple resource identifiers belong; and

the apparatus further comprises;

a parsing unit configured to parse the group identifier of the group to which the multiple resource identifiers belong in the resource acquisition request, acquire the multiple resource identifiers corresponding to the group identifier of the group to which the resource identifiers belong, and send the acquired multiple resource identifiers to the resource acquiring unit.

16. The resource apparatus according to claim 15, wherein before the resource acquisition request sent by the client device is received, the first receiving unit receives a resource device metadata acquisition request sent by the client device, and the resource acquiring unit receives the resource device metadata according to the resource device metadata acquisition request, sends the resource device metadata to the client device, wherein the resource device metadata comprises the group identifier of the group to which the resource identifiers belong.