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US 11,916,730 · App. 17/702,488 · Granted Feb 27, 2024

Service provision to IoT devices

Inventors: Keith Nolan (Mullingar, IE); Mark Kelly (Leixlip, IE); Michael Nolan (Maynooth, IE); Davide Carboni (London, GB); Cliodhna Ni Scanaill (Broadford, IE); Eugene Ryan (Glasnevin, IE); Richard Davies (Dublin, IE); John Brady (Celbridge, IE)
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,916,730
App. No.
17/702,488
Filed
Mar 23, 2022
Granted
Feb 27, 2024
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2445
USPC
709/220
Abstract

An Internet of Things (IoT) network includes an orchestrator to issue service management requests, a service coordinator to identify components to participate in the service, and a component to perform a network service element. An IoT network includes an IoT device with service enumerator, contract enumerator, and join contract function. An IoT network apparatus includes permissions guide drafter for discovered peers, and permissions guide action executor. An IoT network apparatus includes floating service permissions guide drafter for discovered hosts, host hardware selector, floating service permissions guide executor, and service wallet value transferor. An IoT network apparatus includes permissions guide drafter for first and second discovered peers, parameter weight calculator, permissions guide term generator, and permissions guide action executor. An IoT network includes an IoT device with resource hardware component identifier, processor to process a received indication of an external module hardware requirement, an external module comparer, and deactivation signal transmitter.

Claims (33)

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least:

determine capabilities supported by discovered computing hosts, the computing hosts assigned to a fog computing site of peered network devices;

publish the capabilities of the fog computing site;

select the fog computing site to respond to a task request based on the capabilities supported by the discovered computing hosts and a task identified in the task request;

cause the task to be executed on the selected fog computing site.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the fog computing site is communicatively coupled to a cloud computing network.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the article of manufacture includes a sensor.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the article of manufacture is an internet of things (IoT) device.

5. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the machine to cause the capabilities to be published to a virtual shared repository.

6. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the machine to cause the capabilities to be published to lookup service.

7. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the fog computing site is an ad-hoc network formed to allow the peered network devices to function as a single device.

8. A system comprising:

a plurality of computing hosts assigned to a fog computing site of peered network devices;

an orchestrator computing device to:

determine capabilities supported by the plurality of computing hosts;

publish the capabilities of the fog computing site;

select the fog computing site to respond to a task request based on the capabilities supported by the plurality of computing hosts and a task identified in the task request;

cause the task to be executed on the selected fog computing site.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the fog computing site is communicatively coupled to a cloud computing network.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of computing hosts include sensors.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of computing hosts are internet of things (IoT) devices.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the orchestrator is to cause the capabilities to be published to a virtual shared repository.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the orchestrator is to cause the capabilities to be published to lookup service.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the fog computing site is an ad-hoc network formed to allow the peered network devices to function as a single device.

15. A method comprising:

determining capabilities supported by discovered computing hosts, the computing hosts assigned to a fog computing site of peered network devices;

publishing the capabilities of the fog computing site;

selecting the fog computing site to respond to a task request based on the capabilities supported by the discovered computing hosts and a task identified in the task request;

cause the task to be executed on the selected fog computing site.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the fog computing site is communicatively coupled to a cloud computing network.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the computing hosts include sensors.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the computing hosts are internet of things (IoT) devices.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising causing the capabilities to be published to a virtual shared repository.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 14, 2022
From: NOLAN, KEITH; KELLY, MARK; NOLAN, MICHAEL; CARBONI, DAVIDE; SCANAILL, CLIODHNA NI; RYAN, EUGENE; DAVIES, RICHARD; BRADY, JOHN
To: INTEL CORPORATION
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Continuity (3)
Continuation 16467002
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