Cisco Technology, Inc.

Mark Carroll

John Furlan

Matthew Tebbs

Dan Nguyen

Siddhartha Dattagupta

Craig A Hobbs

Chong Liang Li

Edward W James

Mark Chekhanovskiy

Insung Kim

Ariel Braunstein

Aaron H Averbuch

John-Anthony Owens

Alan Pearson

Rodney Bruce Smith

Michael Champlin

Daniel Richard Albertson

Thomas E Logan

A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. A client device configured to connect to the smart network may implement one or more modules configured to facilitate connecting to the smart network, registering the client device or services running on the client device with the smart network, diagnosing issues with the client device or the smart network, and upgrading the firmware of the client device. The client device may be configured to perform the various operations with minimal input from an owner of the smart network.

Client device configured to connect with a home network

A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. Each of the client devices includes network layer 2 and 3 attributes as well as network layer 7 application attributes. The application attributes are enumerated as named services, which each client device registers with the smart network host device. When a client device needs access to a named service, the smart network host device uses layer 2, 3, and 7 attributes associated with the client device to select a suitable server for providing the named service to the client device.

Device and service management based on layer 2 through layer 7 device attributes

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for interacting with one or more client devices coupled to a smart network host device within a smart home network. The method includes the steps of identifying a first application that is associated with at least one client device and stored in an first application store coupled to a smart home network, downloading the first application from the first application store for execution, associating a service that is exposed by the at least one client device with the first application, translating a high-level instruction generated by the first application via the service to a low-level instruction that is understood by the at least one client device, and transmitting the low-level instruction to the at least one client device for processing.

Identifying and downloading an application associated with a service registered in a home network

A simple network management protocol (SNMP) manager communicates with an SNMP master agent using an SNMP data unit (PDU). The PDU includes identification data identifying a particular sub-agent and an SNMP command for an associated managed object. The master agent translates the PDU from the SNMP format into a proprietary database record format used by the sub-agent. The master agent translates the SNMP PDU into the proprietary database record format using a translation table provided by the sub-agent. Messages also flow from the sub-agent to the SNMP manager. The master agent translates these messages from the proprietary database record format into an SNMP PDU using the translation table.

SNMP master agent that translates messages to a sub-agent proprietary format using a translation table by the sub-agent

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Mark Carroll