Cisco Technology, Inc.

Coumara Radja

Carlos M Pignataro

Nitesh Trikha

Balachander Chandrasekaran

Jagdish Girimaji

William Nathan Dry

Pankaj Srivastava

Chris Spain

A web browser executes on a device that has controllable operational features, such as sensor, actuator, and process-related features, and that is connected to other devices via a network. The web browser receives a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document including HTML device tags. Each of the HTML device tags includes a command configured to control a corresponding one of the operational features of the device. The web browser determines, based on each HTML device tag, the command therein to control the corresponding operational feature. The web browser issues the determined command to the corresponding operational feature so as to control the operational feature.

HTML device tags to control operational features of devices in an internet of things

In one embodiment, a method includes creating at a network device, a user session with an interactive digital sign, generating a session tag for the user session, wherein the session tag is configured for input at a mobile device, transmitting the session tag to the interactive digital sign, and continuing at the network device, the user session with the mobile device. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.

Transfer of session from interactive digital sign to mobile device

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

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