Method of managing an object by means of a management gateway using a telecommunications network

• US 9,049,053 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2011
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Actility
• Original Assignee: Actility
• Inventors: Hersent, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Jae Y
• Application Number:
  US13/704,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20130089103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,449 Days
• Field of Search: 370/392, 370/401
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/63 in response to network capacity
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• 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 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 : Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 : Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 : Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 : Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/126 : the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of managing an object (OBJ) through a management gateway (ONG) communicating with a system architecture present on a telecommunications network offering functionalities for registering objects and for routing messages. The method includes the registering (201) of the object with the system architecture by way of the management gateway, by using the registration functionality, and the control (203) of a parameter associated with the object through the management gateway, using the message routing functionality. The present invention also relates to a management gateway (ONG) corresponding to the management method.

Claims

1. Method of managing an object through a management gateway communicating with a system architecture present on a telecommunications network offering object registration, message routing, and IMS bandwidth management semantics, said method comprising the registration of the object with the system architecture by way of the management gateway, using said registration functionality,

the transmission of at least one data item received from the object registered with the system architecture present on the telecommunications network, by means of the SIP protocol, wherein the data item received from the object to be managed indicates a need for the supply of electricity, and

the control of an energy resource received by the object by means of said management gateway, using said message routing and replacing the bandwidth with the energy resource in the IMS bandwidth management semantics.

2. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the registration of the object is carried out by means of an identifier comprising an identifier that is unique within a domain, and a domain identifier that is globally unique, particularly a URI address.

3. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the telecommunications network additionally offers an admission control functionality, wherein the control of the parameter associated with the object additionally uses said admission control functionality.

4. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the telecommunications network additionally offers an authentication functionality, wherein the registration of the object with the system architecture additionally uses said authentication functionality.

5. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the telecommunications network additionally offers a roaming functionality, wherein control of the parameter associated with the object additionally uses said roaming functionality.

6. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the object is an electric vehicle, wherein the management gateway is installed in said electric vehicle and the management gateway is arranged to cooperate with an electrical recharging station in order to manage the supply of electricity to said electric vehicle.

7. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the object is an electric vehicle, wherein the management gateway is installed in a charging station and is arranged to manage the supply of electricity to said electric vehicle by means of the charging station.

8. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the data item received from the object is encapsulated in the data field and/or in the header of a frame organized according to the SIP protocol.

9. Management method according to claims 1, wherein the method comprises the sending by the management gateway of a message signaling a need for energy to an energy admission control sub-system.

10. Management method according to claim 1, wherein the management gateway is arranged to implement a predefined energy policy.

11. Management method according to claim 1, wherein a data item received from the registered device is translated from a first protocol to a second protocol before being sent to the telecommunications network.

12. Management gateway for an object, comprising a physical interface module able to communicate with said object and a network interface module able to communicate with a system architecture present on a telecommunications network, wherein said management gateway is able to implement the method of managing an object according to claim 1.