System for dynamic service collaboration through identification and context of plurality of heterogeneous devices

• US 9,723,062 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2012
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Maiti, Souvik, Sengupta, Munmun, Dutta, Subhajit, Bandyopadhyay, Soma
• Primary Examiner(s): Roumi, Mahran Abu
• Application Number:
  US14/344,464
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,792 Days
• Field of Search: 709204
• 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 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system and method to provide a mechanism to perform faster collaboration among the services by retrieving the context information from the central device using service identifier as key element. The system is adapted to create a unique device identifier by associating device MAC address, context information and operation/service identifier while performing the device registration.

Claims

1. A ubiquitous computing system, without an additional or external context management device, for context aware collaborative service provisioning of heterogeneous sensor within a smart space, the system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises a plurality of modules configured for executing a processor executable instructions, comprising;

a service collaboration platform adapted to receive plurality of sensor information from a plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors communicatively coupled with the service collaboration platform, each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors having a unique device identifier and an associated service identifier, wherein the associated service identifier is associated with a service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, wherein the associated service identifier is configured to act as a key;

a sensor management module adapted to create the unique device identifier by associating a unique medium access control (MAC) address of each of the plurality of heterogeneous sensors with context information of the plurality of heterogeneous sensor respectively, and with the associated service identifier of the service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous sensors while performing discovery and registration of a plurality of connected sensors, and for a subsequent registration thereof, an association map of a plurality of device-specific aspects is generated;

a device identification table configured to dynamically update the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous sensors corresponding to the MAC address and the associated service identifier of each of the plurality of heterogeneous sensors by the sensor management module;

a context extraction module incorporated within the sensor management module, the context extraction module configured to intermittently run a scan at a predefined time interval to extract the context information during a sensor discovery phase and parse the extracted context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous sensors, wherein the extracted context information is used by the sensor management module to create the unique device identifier and update the device identification table; and

at least one service request transmitted to the service collaboration platform, wherein in response to receiving the at least one service request, the service collaboration platform retrieves at least one sensor service context relation from the device identification table using the associated service identifier as the key corresponding to at least one of the plurality of heterogeneous sensors.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a central control system for maintaining the sensor management module.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein an instance of the context information of the plurality of heterogeneous sensors and corresponding associated service identifiers thereof are tagged with the unique device identifier.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predefined time interval is a user-specified time interval.

5. A ubiquitous computing method, implemented without employing an additional or external context management device, for context aware collaborative service provisioning of heterogeneous sensors within a smart space, the method comprising the steps of:

configuring a unique device identifier for a plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors communicatively coupled with a service collaboration platform;

receiving a plurality of sensor information on the service collaboration platform via a device management module;

creating the unique device identifier by associating a service identifier of a service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors and a unique medium access control (MAC) address of the each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors and with context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, respectively, while performing discovery and registration of a plurality of connected sensors, and for a subsequent registration thereof, an association map of a plurality of device-specific aspects is generated, wherein the service identifier is configured to act as a key;

configuring the device management module to correlate each of the plurality of sensor information with the associated MAC address, the associated service identifier, and the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors;

configuring a device identification table to dynamically update the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors corresponding to the associated MAC address and the associated service identifier by the device management module;

configuring a context extraction module incorporated within the device management module to intermittently run a scan at a predefined time interval to extract the context information during a sensor discovery phase and parse the extracted context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, wherein the extracted context information is used by the sensor management module to create the unique device identifier and update the device identification table; and

transmitting at least one service request to the service collaboration platform, wherein in response to receiving the at least one service request, the service collaboration platform retrieves at least one sensor-service-context relation from the device identification table using the associated service identifier as the key corresponding to at least one of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising the step of updating the context information by performing a periodic scan of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors by the device management module at a user specified time interval.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising the step of configuring the device management module to correlate each of the plurality of sensor information with the associated MAC address, the associated service identifier, and the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors and with an operation/service identifier of the service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors while performing discovery and registration of a plurality of connected sensors.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein for each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors discovered during discovery, the unique device identifier is created by the device management module, and an association map of a plurality of device specific aspects is generated, wherein the unique device identifier comprises the unique media access control (MAC) address of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, and the operation/service identifier of the service performed by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors.

9. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein an instance of the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors is tagged with the corresponding MAC address and the service identifier of the service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors.

10. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein extraction of the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors is initiated from a device discovery phase and performed periodically by the context extraction module.

11. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising the step of receiving the plurality of sensor information from a central control system.

12. A computer program product having embodied thereon a computer program having program code stored in a non-transitory medium, implemented without employing an additional or external context management device, for context aware collaborative service provisioning of heterogeneous sensors within a smart space, the computer program product comprising:

program code for configuring a unique device identifier for a plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors communicatively coupled with a service collaboration platform;

program code for receiving a plurality of sensor information on the service collaboration platform via a device management module;

program code for creating the unique device identifier by associating a service identifier of a service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors and a unique medium access control (MAC) address of the each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors and with context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, respectively, while performing discovery and registration of a plurality of connected sensors, and for a subsequent registration thereof, an association map of a plurality of device-specific aspects is generated, wherein the service identifier is configured to act as a key;

program code for configuring the device management module to correlate each of the plurality of sensor information with the associated MAC address, the associated service identifier, and the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors;

program code for configuring a device identification table to dynamically update the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors corresponding to the associated MAC address and the associated service identifier by the device management module;

program code for configuring a context extraction module incorporated within the device management module to intermittently run a scan at a predefined time interval to extract the context information during a sensor discovery phase and parse the extracted context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, wherein the extracted context information is used by the sensor management module to create the unique device identifier and the update device identification table; and

program code for transmitting at least one service request to the service collaboration platform, wherein in response to receiving the at least one service request, the service collaboration platform retrieves at least one sensor-service-context relation from the device identification table using the associated service identifier as the key corresponding to at least one of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising program code for updating the context information by performing a periodic scan of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors by the device management module at a user specified time interval.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising program code for configuring the device management module to correlate each of the plurality of sensor information with the associated MAC address, the associated service identifier, and the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors and with an operation/service identifier of the service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors while performing discovery and registration of a plurality of connected sensors.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein for each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors discovered during discovery, the unique device identifier is created by the device management module, and an association map of a plurality of device specific aspects is generated, wherein the unique device identifier comprises the unique media access control (MAC) address of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors, and the operation/service identifier of the service performed by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors.

16. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein an instance of the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors is tagged with the corresponding MAC address and the operation/service identifier of the service provided by each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors.

17. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein extraction of the context information of each of the plurality of heterogeneous distributed sensors is initiated from a device discovery phase and performed periodically by the context extraction module.

18. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising program code for receiving the plurality of sensor information from a central control system.