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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ravishankar Chamarajnager, Atlanta, GA (US);
Keerthana Parthasarathy, Bangalore, IN;
Him Kalyan Bordoloi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 41/0843 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are various examples for Internet of Things (IoT) device discovery and configuration. In some embodiments, a gateway receives a specified IoT protocol, and instructions for the gateway device to broadcast an IoT device discovery message. The gateway broadcasts the IoT device discovery beacon message, and IoT devices provide unique IoT device identifiers in response. A list of IoT devices is transmitted to the management service. The gateway device receives and implements a command to allow communications with the IoT devices.