SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ABSTRACTING COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL USING SELF-DESCRIBING MESSAGES

• US 20150271299A1
• Filed: 03/21/2014
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PTC Inc.
• Original Assignee: PTC Inc.
• Inventors: Bullotta, Rick, DeRemer, Bob, Mahoney, Mike, Canosa, John
• Granted Patent: US 9,560,170 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/18 Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

A system and method for abstracting communication protocol using self-describing messages. The method includes providing a first communication protocol having control codes and binary messages having a self-describing schema of a data object model. The method includes providing a second communication protocol where instances of the second communication protocol are associatively mapped to the instances of the first communication protocol. The method includes receiving a message in the second communication protocol. The method includes classifying the message as being either a control message or a data message and translating it to a second message where upon the message has been classified as a control message, the processor maps the control message to one or more control codes and where upon the message has been classified as a data message, the processor maps the data message to a corresponding binary message having the self-describing schema.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol in a memory of a device, wherein

the first communication protocol comprises a plurality of control codes and binary messages having a self-describing schema, the self-describing schema being of a data object model, wherein

instances of the second communication protocol are associatively mapped to the instances of the first communication protocol;

receiving, at a port of a computing device, a first instantiation of a message in the second communication protocol;

classifying, by a processor of the computing device, the first instantiation of the message as being either a control message or a data message;

translating, by a processor of the computing device, the first instantiation of the message to produce a second instantiation of the message, wherein

upon the message having been classified as a control message, the processor maps the control message to one or more control codes of the plurality of control codes, and wherein

upon the message having been classified as a data message, the processor maps the data message to a corresponding binary message having the self-describing schema; and

transmitting, at the port of the computing device, the second instantiation of the message.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the message is received via a wireless connection.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the wireless connection includes a network selected from a group consisting of Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiMax, Wi-Fi, GSM, PCS, and D-AMPS, IEC, 6LoWPAN, Ant, DASH7, EnOcean, INSTEON, NeuRF ON, Senceive, WirelessHART, Contiki, TinyOS, GPRS, TCP/IP, CoAP, MQTT, TR-50, OMA LW M2M, ETSI M2M.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the data object model is structured in a dynamic REST API object model.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first communication device transmits the second instantiation of the message to the platform server over a web-socket connection.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the associative mapping between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol is stored in persistent memory.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the associative mapping of the control codes is based on a HTML framework.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the associate mapping of the data message is based on a service request selected from a group consisting of a GET request, a PUT request, a POST request, and a DELETE request.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instruction stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor at a platform server, cause the processor to:

provide a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol in a memory, wherein

the first communication protocol comprises a plurality of control codes and binary messages having a self-describing schema, the self-describing schema being of a data object model, wherein

instances of the second communication protocol are associatively mapped to the instances of the first communication protocol;

receive a first instantiation of a message in the second communication protocol;

classify the first instantiation of the message as being either a control message or a data message;

translating the first instantiation of the message to produce a second instantiation of the message, wherein

upon the message having been classified as a control message, the processor maps the control message to one or more control codes of the plurality of control codes, and wherein

upon the message having been classified as a data message, the processor maps the data message to a corresponding binary message having the self-describing schema; and

transmitting, at the port of the computing device, the second instantiation of the message.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the message is received via a wireless connection.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the wireless connection includes a network selected from a group consisting of Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiMax, Wi-Fi, GSM, PCS, and D-AMPS, IEC, 6LoWPAN, Ant, DASH7, EnOcean, INSTEON, NeuRF ON, Senceive, WirelessHART, Contiki, TinyOS, GPRS, TCP/IP, CoAP, MQTT, TR-50, OMA LW M2M, ETSI M2M.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the data model is structured in a dynamic REST API object model.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the first communication device transmits the second instantiation of the message to the platform server over a web-socket connection.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the associative mapping between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol is stored in persistent memory.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the associative mapping of the control codes is based on a HTML framework.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the associate mapping of the data message is based on a service request selected from a group consisting of a GET request, a PUT request, a POST request, and a DELETE request.

20. The system of claim 9, wherein the associate mapping of the data message is based on a service request selected from a group consisting of a GET request, a PUT request, a POST request, and a DELETE request.

17. A system comprising:

a processor;

a memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

provide a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol in a memory, wherein

the first communication protocol comprises a plurality of control codes and binary messages having a self-describing schema, the self-describing schema being of a data object model, wherein

instances of the second communication protocol are associatively mapped to the instances of the first communication protocol;

receive a first instantiation of a message in the second communication protocol;

classify the first instantiation of the message as being either a control message or a data message;

translating the first instantiation of the message to produce a second instantiation of the message, wherein

upon the message having been classified as a control message, the processor maps the control message to one or more control codes of the plurality of control codes, and wherein

upon the message having been classified as a data message, the processor maps the data message to a corresponding binary message having the self-describing schema; and

transmitting, at the port of the computing device, the second instantiation of the message.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the data model is structured in a dynamic REST API object model.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the associative mapping of the control codes is based on a HTML framework.