Client Device Configuration With Hooks

• US 20070299944A1
• Filed: 08/31/2007
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Burkhart, Michael, Bodin, William
• Granted Patent: US 7,853,673 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/222
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2814 Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2845 Telephone line
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

Configuring a client device including associating a hook in a configuration bundle with customized programming, downloading the configuration bundle for a client device to a services gateway, and executing the configuration bundle on the services gateway, including calling the hook.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a client device, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting a client device and requesting a configuration bundle for the client device;

associating a hook in a configuration bundle with customized programming;

wherein associating a hook in a configuration bundle with customized programming comprises;

receiving a description of the hook from a manufacturer; and

integrating the customized programming with the configuration bundle through the hook in dependence upon the description; and

downloading the configuration bundle for a client device to a services gateway;

wherein downloading a configuration bundle for a client device to a services gateway comprises downloading a generic configuration bundle to a services gateway; and

executing the configuration bundle on the services gateway, including calling the hook;

wherein executing the configuration bundle comprises executing the generic configuration bundle;

wherein executing the generic configuration bundle comprise;

reading a configuration prompt from a client device;

providing the configuration prompt to a user;

receiving configuration parameters from a user; and

writing the configuration parameters to the client device.

2-36. -36. (canceled)