Wireless internet product system

• US 9,270,645 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2013
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Arrayent, Inc. (Prodea Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Arrayent, Inc. (Prodea Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dyer, Shane E., McIntire, Dustin H., Jiang, Zheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thuong
• Application Number:
  US13/784,722
• Publication Number:
  US 20130185786A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• Field of Search: 709/225, 709/238, 709/231, 709/228, 709/219, 709/217, 370/352, 370/401, 370/252, 455/466, 455/557
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/103 across network layers, e.g. resolution of network layer into physical layer addresses or address resolution protocol [ARP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2589 over a relay server, e.g. traversal using relay for network address translation [TURN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0281 Proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/029 Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• 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 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

Low resource internet devices such as consumer electronics products connect to web service by means of a proxy method where the connected device does not need to maintain the expensive and fragile web service interface itself, but rather uses simple low level protocols to communicate through a gateway that executes software to translate a low level proprietary wireless protocol to a proprietary low level internet protocol that can pass through a firewall to proxy servers that translate the low level protocols thus presenting an interface that makes the internet device appear to have a full web service interface to enable communication between the internet devices and the web server.

Claims

1. A network communication system for communicating with software applications through a proxy server and a firewall, the network communication system comprising:

an electronic device to;

(i) transfer a unique identifier (ID) through the firewall using a protocol; and

(ii) transfer or receive data in one or more packets through the firewall using the protocol, wherein the unique ID corresponds to the electronic device, and wherein a packet length of the one or more packets as they are sent through the firewall is shorter than a web service protocol packet length having corresponding information content and is shorter than 65,507 bytes; and

a translation server being configured to route the data in the one or more packets between the electronic device and the software applications using the unique ID;

wherein the translation server is configured to translate the protocol to and from the web service protocol, the web service protocol being used to transmit the data in the one or more packets through an internet between the translator and the software applications;

wherein the software applications utilize web services to process the data in the one or more packets; and

wherein the electronic device communicates with the software applications using both the protocol and the web service protocol in combination.

2. The network communication system according to claim 1, wherein the protocol is an internet message system (IMS) protocol.

3. The network communication system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device communicates wirelessly.

4. The network communication system according to claim 3, wherein the electronic device communicates wirelessly using a compact radio protocol (CRP).

5. The network communication system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a gateway.

6. The network communication system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device includes a low power wireless circuit.

7. The network communication system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device further comprising an internet product that communicates over the internet.

8. The network communication system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a dongle configured to couple to a personal computer.

9. The network communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a table entry including information enabling the router to cause the proxy server to transfer the data through the firewall.

10. The network communication system according to claim 9, wherein the table entry includes a timeout time which is used to block the transfer.

11. The network communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a state or key value pair message associated with the electronic device.

12. The network communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the electronic device is selected from the group consisting of:

a thermostat, an animatronic toy, a medical sensor, a touch screen a display drawing pad, and a sensor; and

wherein the electronic device is responsive to the data.

13. The network communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a signal strength circuit being configured to detect a predetermined reduced signal strength condition which initiates a resynchronization scan.

14. A method for communicating with software applications through a proxy server and a firewall, the method comprising:

transferring, using a radio on an electronic device, a unique identifier (ID) through the firewall using a protocol, wherein the unique ID corresponds to the electronic device;

transferring or receiving, using the radio on the electronic device, data in one or more packets through the firewall using the protocol, wherein a packet length of the one or more packets as they are sent through the firewall is shorter than a web service protocol packet length having corresponding information content and is shorter than 65,507 bytes;

routing, using a processor on a translation server, the data in the one or more packets between the electronic device and the software applications using the unique ID; and

translating, using the processor on the translation server, the protocol to and from a web service protocol, the web service protocol being used to transmit the data in the one or more packets through an internet between the translator and the software applications;

wherein the software applications utilize web services to process the data in the one or more packets; and

wherein the electronic device communicates with the software applications using both the protocol and the web service protocol in combination.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the protocol is an internet message system (IMS) protocol.

16. The method according to claim 14, further comprising transferring the data received wirelessly from an internet product that communicates over the internet.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the transferring transfers the data wirelessly using a compact radio protocol (CRP).

18. The method according to claim 14, further comprising providing a state or key value pair message associated with the electronic device.

19. The method according to claim 14, further comprising transferring data from an electronic device selected from the group consisting of:

a thermostat, an animatronic toy, a medical sensor, a touch screen display drawing pad, and a sensor; and

wherein the electronic device is responsive to the data.

20. The method according to claim 14, further comprising providing a table entry including information enabling the routing step to cause the proxy server to transfer the data through the firewall.