Systems and methods for electronic communication with a device using an unknown communications protocol

1. A system, comprising:

a transceiver that intercepts a plurality of communications between two or more transceivers in a communications network, the plurality of communications conforming to an unknown communications protocol, the system having no a priori knowledge of the unknown communications protocol upon interception of the first of the plurality of communications; and

a computing device comprising:

a processor; and

memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform the following acts:

responsive to receiving the plurality of communications from the transceiver, generating communication pattern data by executing a pattern-recognition algorithm over the plurality of communications, the communication pattern data indicative of a feature of the unknown communications protocol;

generating a communications schema based upon the communication pattern data, the communications schema partially conforming to the unknown communications protocol;

formatting a first communication to conform with the communications schema; and

outputting the first communication by way of the transceiver to a first transceiver in the communications network.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of communications between the two or more transceivers in the communications network are wireless communications.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the communications schema comprises a plurality of fields, each field of the communications schema corresponding to a respective feature of the unknown communications protocol in use on the communications network.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feature of the unknown communications protocol comprises a bit value for at least one bit position in a data frame.

5. The system of claim 1 , the acts further comprising receiving data indicative of a condition external to the communications network, wherein the communication pattern data is generated by executing the pattern-recognition algorithm over the plurality of communications and the data indicative of the condition external to the communications network.

6. The system of claim 1 , the communication pattern data generated based at least in part on a respective time of receipt of each of the plurality of communications.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the pattern-recognition algorithm comprises a hidden Markov model.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the pattern-recognition algorithm comprises a deep neural network.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the pattern-recognition algorithm comprises a motif discovery algorithm.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feature is a frequency of communication between the two or more transceivers on the communications network.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feature is a characteristic of a data frame.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feature of the unknown communications protocol is a physical layer feature.

13. A method, comprising:

intercepting a plurality of communications between two or more transceivers in a communications network, the plurality of communications conforming to an unknown communications protocol, the unknown communications protocol being a communications protocol about which no a priori knowledge is known;

generating communication pattern data by executing a pattern-recognition algorithm over the plurality of communications, the communication pattern data indicative of a feature of the unknown communications protocol;

generating a communications schema based upon the communication pattern data, the communications schema partially conforming to the unknown communications protocol;

formatting a first communication to conform with the communications schema; and

transmitting the first communication to a first transceiver in the communications network.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the pattern-recognition algorithm comprises at least one of a hidden Markov model, a deep neural network, and a motif discovery algorithm.

15. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

responsive to generating the communication pattern data, executing one or more pattern-recognition algorithms over the plurality of communications based upon the communication pattern data; and

updating the communication pattern data, wherein the updated communication pattern data is indicative of a second feature of the unknown communications protocol.

16. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

receiving data indicative of a condition external to the communications network;

executing one or more pattern-recognition algorithms over the plurality of communications and the data indicative of the external condition; and

outputting data indicating that a characteristic of a communication in the plurality of communications is associated with the external condition.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the feature is a channel access method.

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein the feature is a bit rate.

19. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the following acts:

intercepting a plurality of communications between two or more transceivers in a communications network, the plurality of communications conforming to an unknown communications protocol, the unknown communications protocol being a communications protocol about which no a priori knowledge is known;

executing a pattern-recognition algorithm over the plurality of communications;

inferring a feature of the unknown communications protocol based upon executing the pattern-recognition algorithm;

generating a communications schema based upon the inferred feature, the communications schema partially conforming to the unknown communications protocol;

formatting a first communication to conform with the communications schema; and

transmitting the first communication to a first transceiver in the communications network.