Remotely managed device

• US 8,706,870 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Okayama, Masataka
• Primary Examiner(s): Baturay, Alicia
• Application Number:
  US13/524,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20120259979A1
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40013 Details regarding a bus controller
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

A remote management server creates a data set-up instruction telegram to be sent to a remotely managed device. A control program extracts the data set-up instruction from the telegram, and outputs same to a communication control bundle. The communication control bundle outputs the data set-up instruction to a basic data management bundle. The basic data management bundle, based on the data set-up instruction, fetches the data to be set in the remotely managed device, and determines whether this data is basic data or extended data. If the data is basic data, the basic data management bundle executes this data set-up process. If the data is extended data, an extended data management bundle executes the data set-up process.

Claims

1. A remotely managed device comprising a function which is coupled to a remote management server via a communication network, and which is a management target of the remote management server, comprising:

a storage unit that stores a basic data management bundle that is a management program of basic data which is necessary for the remotely managed device executing basic processing of the function, an extended data management bundle that is a management program of extended data which is necessary for the remotely managed device expanding the function, and an OSGi service platform that is a management program of life cycles of each of the bundles; and

a control unit configured to execute the programs stored in the storage unit, wherein;

in the OSGi service platform, extended data, which each extended data management bundle can manage, is registered,

as to instruction of data which is sent from the remote management server, the basic data management bundle executes processing for determining whether instruction target data is basic data or not,

if the instruction target data is basic data, the basic data management bundle executes the instruction regarding the basic data; and

if the instruction target data is not basic data, the basic data management bundle searches extended data registered in the OSGi service platform, and checks which of the extended data management bundles manages the instruction target data,

if one of the extended data management bundles for managing the instruction target data is found, the instruction target data is output to the found extended data management bundle, and the extended data management bundle executes the instruction regarding the instruction target data.

2. A remotely managed device according to claim 1,

wherein, if extended data management bundle for managing the instruction target data is not found, the result is returned by the basic data management bundle.

3. A remotely managed device according to claim 1,

wherein the remotely management device further comprises a communication control bundle that, in accordance with a prescribed protocol, receives the data and related instruction from the remotely managed server.

4. A remotely managed device according to claim 3, wherein the prescribed protocol is a CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP).

5. A remotely managed device according to claim 3, wherein the remotely managed device has a plurality of functions, is connected to a plurality of remotely managed servers which are different for each of the plurality of functions, and has a combination of a basic data management bundle and an extended data management bundle for each of the plurality of functions, and

wherein the communication control bundle specifies which of the plurality of functions the instruction regarding data received by any of the remotely managed servers corresponds to, and outputs the instruction to the basic data management bundle in the specified function.

6. A remotely managed device according to claim 5, wherein the basic data management bundle of any of the functions that received the instruction from the communication control bundle, in execution of the instruction regarding the instruction target data, outputs an execution result to the communication control bundle.

7. A remotely managed device according to claim 1,

wherein either or both of the basic data management bundle and the extended data management bundle, in execution of the instruction regarding the instruction target data, outputs execution results to a transmission source of the instruction regarding the instruction target data.

8. A remotely managed device according to claim 1,

wherein either or both of the basic data management bundle and the extended data management bundle, if the instruction regarding the instruction target data is executed by setting processing of data, makes a setting by own bundle or makes a setting to a control program for controlling an operation of the remotely managed device and receives a setting result from the control program which instructed the setting.

9. A remotely managed device according to claim 1,

wherein either or both of the basic data management bundle and the extended data management bundle, in execution of the instruction regarding the instruction target data, checks whether there is a change in the instruction target data, and if there is a change, outputs a change value to a transmission source of the instruction regarding the instruction target data.

10. A remotely managed device according to claim 9, wherein either or both of the basic data management bundle and the extended data management bundle checks by its own bundle whether or not there is a change in the instruction target data, or inquires a control program for controlling operation of the remotely managed device.