Locale profile for a fabric network

• US 9,338,071 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2014
• Issued: 05/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Erickson, Grant M., Logue, Jay D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bengzon, Greg C
• Application Number:
  US14/588,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20160105339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
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Abstract

Methods and systems for conveying locale information for an electronic device includes receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device. Conveying the locale information also includes sending, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales. The message includes a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales, an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device, and an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

at least one network interface;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to;

receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device;

enable the remote device to read the version field using a locale profile;

disable the remote device from writing to the version field using the locale profile; and

enable the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor receive a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the version field includes a profile tag that indicates that the following information relates to the version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales, wherein the profile tag comprises a tag value of 0x0002 that indicates that a following data payload designates the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the version field includes the data payload that designates the version the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales, wherein data in the data payload comprises an unsigned integer between 0 and 255, wherein each integer between 0 and 255 corresponds to the version of the schema of a plurality of schema versions used to encode locale information for the electronic device.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein each version of the schema corresponding to an integer of the integers between 0 and 255 is additive relative to versions of the schema corresponding to lower integers, and the version integer is advisory to the remote device to inform the remote device that schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor to:

update the schema version to a new version of the schema without updating the version field; and

by encoding data in the new version of the schema, enabling the remote device determine the presence of schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein enabling the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile comprises:

changing a value of the version field to a new value in response to a request to update software command as part of a software update profile used to update code stored in the memory of the electronic device; and

updating the schema to a version of the schema corresponding to new value.

43. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor to:

update the schema version to a new version of the schema without updating the version field; and

by encoding data in the new version of the schema, enabling the remote device determine the presence of schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers.

8. Non-transitory, computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, are configured to cause a processor to:

receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use;

enable the remote device to read the version field using a locale profile;

disable the remote device from writing to the version field using the locale profile; and

enable the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile.

9. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein each locale comprises a location for the electronic device and a language for the device, wherein the language is location-specific to identify features of the identified language that are specific to the location or a dialect identified by the location in combination with the language.

10. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device.

11. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the available locale field comprises a list of one or more available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the available locale field comprises an available locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0002 identifying the following information as available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with the remote service.

12. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the locale information transmitted with the active locale field and the available locale field comprises a Universal Character Set and Transformation Format-8 bit (UTF-8) string that indicates the location and language of the locale, and the UTF-8 string is formatted in an Internet Engineering Task Force Best Current Practice 47 (IETF BCP 47) format.

13. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the active locale field may be read or written by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using network or fabric credentials, and the available locale field may be read by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using the network or fabric credentials.

14. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

sending, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use;

enabling the remote device to read the version field using a locale profile;

disabling the remote device from writing to the version field using the locale profile; and

enabling the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein receiving the request for active or available locales from the remote device via the network interface comprises receiving a data management view request from the remote device, wherein the data management view request may include a request to view the entire locale profile or a request to view only the available locales field of the locale profile.

16. The method of claim 14, comprising receiving a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.

17. The method of claim 16, comprising:

determining whether the request to change the active locale is properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale;

if the request to change the active locale is a properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale, changing the active locale field to a locale indicated in the request; and

if the request to change the active locale is not properly formatted or pertains to a locale not stored in the available locales, responding with a notification to the remote device that the requested change has failed.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the request to change the active locale includes a requested locale that is not supported by the electronic device or is unknown to the electronic device, and the notification to the remote device may include a status report using the core profile to update the remote device on the status of the requested update, wherein the status report has a status code of 0x0001 under the locale profile that indicates that the requested locale is not supported or in unknown to the electronic device.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the request to change the active locale includes a requested locale that is in not in an expected format, and the notification to the remote device may include a status report using the core profile to update the remote device on the status of the requested update, wherein the status report has a status code of 0x0002 under the locale profile that indicates that the requested locale is not properly formatted.

20. An electronic device comprising:

at least one network interface;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to;

receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device, wherein the version field includes a profile tag that indicates that the following information relates to the version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales, wherein the profile tag comprises a tag value of 0x0002 that indicates that a following data payload designates the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales, wherein each version of the schema corresponding to an integer of the integers between 0 and 255 is additive relative to versions of the schema corresponding to lower integers, and the version integer is advisory to the remote device to inform the remote device that schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers, and wherein each version of the schema corresponding to an integer of the integers between 0 and 255 is additive relative to versions of the schema corresponding to lower integers, and the version integer is advisory to the remote device to inform the remote device that schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers.

21. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor to:

update the schema version to a new version of the schema without updating the version field;

by encoding data in the new version of the schema, enabling the remote device determine the presence of schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers.

22. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor to:

enable the remote device to read the version field using a locale profile;

disable the remote device from writing to the version field using the locale profile; and

enable the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile.

23. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

sending, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use, wherein the version field includes a profile tag that indicates that the following information relates to the version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales, wherein the profile tag comprises a tag value of 0x0002 that indicates that a following data payload designates the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales, wherein each version of the schema corresponding to an integer of the integers between 0 and 255 is additive relative to versions of the schema corresponding to lower integers, and the version integer is advisory to the remote device to inform the remote device that schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers, and wherein each version of the schema corresponding to an integer of the integers between 0 and 255 is additive relative to versions of the schema corresponding to lower integers, and the version integer is advisory to the remote device to inform the remote device that schema fields are present in the schema that are newer than those present in only the versions of the schema corresponding to the lower integers.

24. The method of claim 23 comprising:

enabling the remote device to read the version field using a locale profile;

disabling the remote device from writing to the version field using the locale profile; and

enabling the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein receiving the request for active or available locales from the remote device via the network interface comprises receiving a data management view request from the remote device, wherein the data management view request may include a request to view the entire locale profile or a request to view only the available locales field of the locale profile.

26. The method of claim 23 comprising receiving a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.

27. An electronic device comprising:

at least one network interface;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to;

receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device;

enable the remote device to write to the version field using a profile field other than a locale profile, wherein enabling the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile comprises;

changing a value of the version field to a new value in response to a request to update software command as part of a software update profile used to update code stored in the memory of the electronic device; and

updating the schema to a version of the schema corresponding to new value.

28. The electronic device of claim 27, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor receive a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.

29. The electronic device of claim 27, wherein the version field includes a profile tag that indicates that the following information relates to the version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales, wherein the profile tag comprises a tag value of 0x0002 that indicates that a following data payload designates the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales.

30. The electronic device of claim 27, wherein each locale comprises a location for the electronic device and a language for the device, wherein the language is location-specific to identify features of the identified language that are specific to the location or a dialect identified by the location in combination with the language.

31. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

sending, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use; and

enabling the remote device to write to the version field using a profile field other than a locale profile, wherein enabling the remote device to write to the version field using a profile other than the locale profile comprises;

changing a value of the version field to a new value in response to a request to update software command as part of a software update profile used to update code stored in the memory of the electronic device; and

updating the schema to a version of the schema corresponding to new value.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein each locale comprises a location for the electronic device and a language for the device, wherein the language is location-specific to identify features of the identified language that are specific to the location or a dialect identified by the location in combination with the language.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device.

34. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

sending, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use,

wherein the available locale field comprises a list of one or more available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the available locale field comprises an available locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0002 identifying the following information as available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with the remote service, wherein the locale information transmitted with the active locale field and the available locale field comprises a Universal Character Set and Transformation Format-8 bit (UTF-8) string that indicates the location and language of the locale, and the UTF-8 string is formatted in an Internet Engineering Task Force Best Current Practice 47 (IETF BCP

     47) format.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein receiving the request for active or available locales from the remote device via the network interface comprises receiving a data management view request from the remote device, wherein the data management view request may include a request to view the entire locale profile or a request to view only the available locales field of the locale profile.

36. The method of claim 34, comprising receiving a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.

37. The method of claim 36, comprising:

determining whether the request to change the active locale is properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale;

if the request to change the active locale is a properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale, changing the active locale field to a locale indicated in the request; and

if the request to change the active locale is not properly formatted or pertains to a locale not stored in the available locales, responding with a notification to the remote device that the requested change has failed.

38. An electronic device comprising:

at least one network interface;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to;

receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device, wherein the available locale field comprises a list of one or more available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the available locale field comprises an available locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0002 identifying the following information as available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with the remote service, wherein the locale information transmitted with the active locale field and the available locale field comprises a Universal Character Set and Transformation Format-8 bit (UTF-8) string that indicates the location and language of the locale, and the UTF-8 string is formatted in an Internet Engineering Task Force Best Current Practice 47 (IETF BCP

     47) format.

39. The electronic device of claim 38, wherein the version field includes a profile tag that indicates that the following information relates to the version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales, wherein the profile tag comprises a tag value of 0x0002 that indicates that a following data payload designates the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales.

40. The electronic device of claim 38, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor receive a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.

41. An electronic device comprising:

at least one network interface;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to;

receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device, wherein the available locale field comprises a list of one or more available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the available locale field comprises an available locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0002 identifying the following information as available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with the remote service, wherein the active locale field may be read or written by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using network or fabric credentials, and the available locale field may be read by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using the network or fabric credentials.

42. The electronic device of claim 41, wherein the version field includes a data payload that designates the version the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales, wherein data in the data payload comprises an unsigned integer between 0 and 255, wherein each integer between 0 and 255 corresponds to the version of the schema of a plurality of schema versions used to encode locale information for the electronic device.

44. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

sending, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use, wherein the available locale field comprises a list of one or more available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the available locale field comprises an available locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0002 identifying the following information as available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with the remote service, wherein the active locale field may be read or written by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using network or fabric credentials, and the available locale field may be read by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using the network or fabric credentials.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein receiving the request for active or available locales from the remote device via the network interface comprises receiving a data management view request from the remote device, wherein the data management view request may include a request to view the entire locale profile or a request to view only the available locales field of the locale profile.

46. The method of claim 44, wherein each locale comprises a location for the electronic device and a language for the device, wherein the language is location-specific to identify features of the identified language that are specific to the location or a dialect identified by the location in combination with the language.

47. An electronic device comprising:

at least one network interface;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to;

receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device;

receive a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

determine whether the request to change the active locale is properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale;

if the request to change the active locale is a properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale, change the active locale field to a locale indicated in the request; and

if the request to change the active locale is not properly formatted or pertains to a locale not stored in the available locales, respond with a notification to the remote device that the requested change has failed.

48. The electronic device of claim 47, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor receive a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.

49. The electronic device of claim 47, wherein the version field includes a profile tag that indicates that the following information relates to the version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales, wherein the profile tag comprises a tag value of 0x0002 that indicates that a following data payload designates the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales.

50. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

sending, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises;

a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales;

an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device; and

an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use;

receiving a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device;

determining whether the request to change the active locale is properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale;

if the request to change the active locale is a properly formatted request that pertains to an available locale, changing the active locale field to a locale indicated in the request; and

if the request to change the active locale is not properly formatted or pertains to a locale not stored in the available locales, responding with a notification to the remote device that the requested change has failed.

51. The method of claim 50, wherein each locale comprises a location for the electronic device and a language for the device, wherein the language is location-specific to identify features of the identified language that are specific to the location or a dialect identified by the location in combination with the language.

52. The method of claim 50, comprising receiving a request from the remote device to change the active locale for the electronic device from the active locale indicated in the message to an available locale listed in the available locales field transmitted in the message from the electronic device to the remote device in response to the request for active or available locales for the electronic device.