Machine to machine development environment

• US 8,977,785 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Issued: 03/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Polehn, Donna L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sun, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/675,495
• Publication Number:
  US 20140136735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 847 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 710/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/32 using combination of interrupt and burst mode transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4234 being a memory bus

Abstract

A wireless memory device may include logic configured to detect that first data has been written by a microcontroller to a first address of a memory space of the wireless memory device; incorporate the first data into a first packet, in response to detecting that the first data has been written to the memory space, wherein the first packet includes the first address; and provide the first packet to a wireless chipset to wirelessly transmit the first packet to a destination device. The logic may be further configured to receive a second packet from the wireless chip set, wherein the second packet was received wirelessly from the destination device; retrieve a second memory address from the second packet; retrieve second data from the second packet; and write the second data to the retrieved second memory address in the memory space of the wireless memory device.

Claims

1. A wireless memory device comprising:

logic configured to mirror a memory space of the wireless memory device in a destination device, wherein the logic is configured to;

detect that a first set of data has been written by a microcontroller to a first address in the memory space;

incorporate the first set of data into a first packet, in response to detecting that the first set of data has been written to the memory space;

incorporate the first address into the first packet to identify an address in a mirrored memory space in the destination device to which the first set of data is to be written;

provide the first packet to a wireless chipset to wirelessly transmit the first packet to the destination device;

receive a second packet from the wireless chipset, wherein the second packet was received wirelessly from the destination device;

retrieve a second memory address from the second packet, wherein the second memory address identifies an address in the mirrored memory space in the destination device to which a second set of data has been written;

retrieve the second set of data from the second packet; and

write the second set of data to the retrieved second memory address in the memory space of the wireless memory device.

2. The wireless memory device of claim 1, wherein the logic is further configured to:

determine whether a chip select line of the wireless memory device is active;

determine whether a write enable line of the wireless memory device is active, in response to determining that the chip select line is active; and

set a write flag, in response to determining that the write enable line of the wireless memory device is active.

3. The wireless memory device of claim 2, wherein the logic is further configured to:

determine a read address, in response to determining that the write enable line of the wireless memory device is not active;

read a third set of data at the determined read address; and

provide the read third set of data to the microcontroller.

4. The wireless memory device of claim 2, wherein the logic is further configured to:

determine whether a write flag has been set, in response to determining that the chip select line of the wireless memory device is not active;

write the first set of data from a buffer to the first address;

receive an indication from the wireless chipset that transmission of the first set of data is complete; and

clear the write flag, in response to receiving the indication from the wireless chipset.

5. The wireless memory device of claim 1, wherein the logic is further configured to:

activate an interrupt to inform the microcontroller that new data has been received, in response to writing the second set of data to the retrieved second memory address.

6. The wireless memory device of claim 1, wherein the wireless chipset includes a Long Term Evolution chipset.

7. The wireless memory device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first packet or the second packet includes a Transmission Control Protocol packet.

8. A method, performed by a computer device, the method comprising:

monitoring, by the computer device, communication from a wireless memory device and from an application interface memory buffer associated with the wireless memory device, wherein the application interface memory buffer minors a memory space of the wireless memory device;

determining, by the computer device, whether a first packet has been received from the wireless memory device;

retrieving, by the computer device, a first memory address from the first packet, in response to determining that the first packet has been received, wherein the first memory address identifies an address in the memory space in the wireless memory device at which a first set of data was written;

retrieving, by the computer device, the first set of data from the first packet;

storing, by the computer device, the first set of data at the retrieved first memory address of the application interface memory buffer;

determining, by the computer device, whether a second set of data has been stored at a second address in the application interface memory buffer by an application associated with the wireless memory device;

generating, by the computer device, a second packet, in response determining that the second set of data has been stored in the application interface memory buffer;

incorporating, by the computer device, the second address into the second packet to identify an address in the memory space in the wireless memory device to which the second set of data is to be written; and

sending, by the computer device, the second packet to the wireless memory device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a request to configure a target device associated with the wireless memory device;

providing a user interface to a user, wherein the user interface enables the user to select one or more configurations for the target device;

receiving one or more configurations from the user; and

generating a user application to interact with the target device based on the one or more configurations, wherein the user application is configured to use the application interface memory buffer to communicate with the target device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more configurations include:

a mobile device identifier associated with the wireless memory device;

or

a server device associated with the wireless memory device.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more configurations include at least one of:

an instrumentation configuration associated with the target device;

an automated process configuration associated with the target device;

a communication configuration associated with the target device;

or

a logs and alarms configuration associated with the target device.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

obtaining one or more instructions to be executed by a microcontroller associated with the target device;

storing the obtained one or more instructions in the application interface memory buffer at one or more memory addresses, wherein the one or more memory addresses are accessed by the microcontroller to execute instructions;

generating a plurality of packets, wherein the plurality of packets include the one or more instructions and the one or more memory addresses; and

sending the plurality of packets to the wireless memory device.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein sending the second packet to the wireless memory device includes:

determining a mobile device identifier associated with the wireless memory device;

establishing a connection with the wireless memory device using the determined mobile device identifier; and

sending the second packet to the wireless memory device using the established connection.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the connection includes at least one of:

an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem session;

or

a Long Term Evolution bearer.

15. A computer device comprising:

logic configured to;

monitor communication from a wireless memory device and from an application interface memory buffer associated with the wireless memory device, wherein the application interface memory buffer minors a memory space of the wireless memory device;

determine whether a first packet has been received from the wireless memory device;

retrieve a first memory address from the first packet, in response to determining that the first packet has been received, wherein the first memory address identifies an address in the memory space in the wireless memory device at which a first set of data was written;

retrieve the first set of data from the first packet;

store the first set of data at the retrieved first memory address of the application interface buffer;

determine whether a second set of data has been stored at a second address in the application interface memory buffer by an application associated with the wireless memory device;

generate a second packet, in response determining that the second set of data has been stored in the application interface memory buffer;

incorporate the second address into the second packet to identify an address in the memory space in the wireless memory device to which the second set of data is to be written; and

send the second packet to the wireless memory device.

16. The computer device of claim 15, wherein the logic is further configured to:

receive a request to configure a target device associated with the wireless memory device;

provide a user interface to a user, wherein the user interface enables the user to select one or more configurations for the target device;

receive one or more configurations from the user; and

generate a user application to interact with the target device based on the one or more configurations, wherein the user application is configured to use the application interface memory buffer to communicate with the target device.

17. The computer device of claim 16, wherein the one or more configurations include at least one of:

a mobile device identifier associated with the wireless memory device;

information identifying a server device associated with the wireless memory device;

an instrumentation configuration associated with the target device;

an automated process configuration associated with the target device;

a communication configuration associated with the target device;

or

a logs and alarms configuration associated with the target device.

18. The computer device of claim 15, wherein the logic is further configured to:

obtain one or more instructions to be executed by a microcontroller associated with the target device;

store the obtained one or more instructions in the application interface memory buffer at one or more memory addresses, wherein the one or more memory addresses are accessed by the microcontroller to execute instructions;

generate a plurality of packets, wherein the plurality of packets include the one or more instructions and the one or more memory addresses; and

send the plurality of packets to the wireless memory device.

19. The computer device of claim 15, wherein when the logic is configured to send the second packet to the wireless memory device, the logic is further configured to:

determine a mobile device identifier associated with the wireless memory device;

establish a connection with the wireless memory device using the determined mobile device identifier; and

send the second packet to the wireless memory device using the established connection.

20. The computer device of claim 19, wherein the connection includes at least one of:

an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem session;

or

a Long Term Evolution bearer.