EFFICIENT RESOURCE REPRESENTATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN SERVICE LAYERS

    公开(公告)号:US20230421663A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US18461932

    申请日:2023-09-06

    CPC classification number: H04L67/60 H04L47/76

    Abstract: Some underlying networks such as Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) have limited communication bandwidth and strict requirements on maximum message size. These requirements may pose a challenge for data or resource exchange between two service layer (SL) entities, for example, because resource representations to be exchanged may have too large a size to be supported by the underlying networks. In some cases, traditional data compression algorithms can be used to alleviate this problem to some degree, but it is recognized herein that there are associated computation costs due to compression and decompression that may not be affordable for constrained IoT devices. Various embodiments described herein address this problem, among others by defining a Resource Representation Common Part (RRCP) and storing it at the service layer. In some cases, the RRCP is not transmitted between SL entities, thereby reducing SL message sizes to cater to the constraints of underlying networks.

    SERVICE LAYER MESSAGE TEMPLATES IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20230262141A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-17

    申请号:US18306592

    申请日:2023-04-25

    CPC classification number: H04L67/565 H04W4/70 H04L67/561

    Abstract: The concept of a service layer message template is introduced, which may be a request template or a response template. Message templates may be created and stored at the service layer. Each message template may contain a set of request or response parameters and their values. Once in place, an application can send a request to the service layer that does not include the request parameters contained in the message template (i.e. request template); instead, a message template identifier may be sent. Since request parameters are included in the message template and stored at the service layer, communication overhead between the service layer and the application (or another service layer) may be reduced.

    METHODS TO LEVERAGE NON-CELLULAR DEVICE CAPABILITIES

    公开(公告)号:US20220022029A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-20

    申请号:US17295589

    申请日:2019-11-21

    Abstract: Cellular devices are becoming more and more powerful, and may host a number of different non-cellular capabilities, such as cameras, accelerometers, and sensors. Today, these capabilities are used mainly to provide some service to the device or the device owner. Disclosed herein are methods and systems for enabling devices to register their device capabilities with a cellular network, providing a mechanism for Application Servers to discover non-cellular capabilities of the devices, providing a mechanism to have the Application Servers configure these non-cellular capabilities of the devices, and preparing the device and the network for cellular traffic generated as a result of the Application Server using these non-cellular capabilities.

    PERMISSION BASED RESOURCE AND SERVICE DISCOVERY

    公开(公告)号:US20200304510A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-24

    申请号:US16898518

    申请日:2020-06-11

    Abstract: Current discovery mechanisms lack capabilities, such as capabilities related to permissions associated with a given registrant for example. In an example embodiment, a registrant of a service layer can communicate with a network node that hosts the service layer. The network node may receive a discovery request for a resource from the registrant. The discovery may request include various context. For example, the context of the discovery request may be indicative of an operation that the registrant intends to perform on the resource, a role that the registrant intends to assume if the registrant accesses the resource, a location in which the registrant intends to access the resource, or a subscription plan that the registrant intends to use if the registrant accesses the resource. Based on the context of the discovery request, the network node may determine whether one or more resources at the service layer satisfy the discovery request.

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