Method and apparatus to manage sensors

• US 20080162673A1
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mansoor Ahamed Basheer Ahamed, Padmashree K. Apparao, Rajeev Tiwari
• Original Assignee: Mansoor Ahamed Basheer Ahamed, Padmashree K. Apparao, Rajeev Tiwari
• Inventors: Basheer Ahamed, Mansoor Ahamed, Apparao, Padmashree K., Tiwari, Rajeev
• Application Number:
  US11/648,489
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162673A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/14 WLL [Wireless Local Loop]; RLL [Radio Local Loop]

Abstract

A method and an apparatus to manage sensors on an autonomous computing network, platform and similar other systems are illustrated. The sensor management module may comprise a sensor management server, a sensor management client and a sensor driver. The sensor management module may discover presence or absence of the sensor on the computing environment and register it with the server management stack automatically.

Claims

1. A method to manage sensors comprising:

generating and broadcasting a message, wherein the message is to inform of a presence of a sensor management server;

detecting a presence of a sensor;

sending a request for information to the sensor; and

registering the sensor with the sensor management server based on the information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is broadcast to a computing environment by the sensor management server.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising generating and broadcasting the message to a platform by the sensor management server.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the message includes an internet protocol (IP) address, wherein the IP address is to identify the sensor management server.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating and broadcasting a message by a sensor management client to identify the sensor management server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is from a sensor management client for adding a new sensor.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the request is from the sensor management client for removing an available sensor.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein registering comprises adding a new sensor to a sensor device list of the sensor management server based on the information.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising unregistering an available sensor and removing the sensor from the sensor device list of the sensor management server based on the information.

10. A sensor management module comprising:

a sensor management server to add and remove a sensor to and from a sensor device list of the sensor management server; and

a sensor management client to couple between the sensor management server and a sensor.

11. The sensor management module of claim 10, wherein the sensor management server generates a message with an IP address and broadcasts the massage to the computing environment to inform its presence.

12. The sensor management module of claim 10, wherein the sensor management server receives a request from a sensor management client to add the sensor and adds the sensor to a sensor device list, based information received from the sensor management client.

13. The sensor management module of claim 10, wherein the sensor management server receives a request to remove the sensor and removes the sensor from sensor device list, based on information received from the sensor management client.

14. The sensor management module of claim 10, wherein the sensor management client generates and broadcasts a message to identify presence of the sensor management server.

15. The sensor management module of claim 14, wherein the sensor management client receives information from a sensor driver and requests the sensor management server to add or remove the sensor from a sensor device list of the sensor management server.

16. A machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that, in response to being executed, results in a sensor management module comprising:

generating and broadcasting a message to inform of a presence of a sensor management server;

detecting a presence of a sensor; and

registering the sensor with the sensor management server based on the information.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the sensor management module to receive a request to add a sensor and adds the sensor to a sensor device list.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the sensor management module receiving a request to remove a sensor and removing the sensor from the sensor device list.