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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mats Agerstam, Portland, OR (US);
David J. McCall, Dallas, TX (US);
Vijay Sarathi Kesavan, Portland, OR (US);
Maria E. Ramirez Loaiza, Hillsboro, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify and manage IoT protocols and associated devices. An example apparatus includes a gateway device to communicate according to a first protocol. The example gateway device includes a plugin agent to discover a first device and probe the first device to gather data regarding a protocol of the first device. The example plugin agent is to transmit the gathered data to a plugin manager to determine whether the first device is to communicate via the first protocol, and, when the first device is unable to communicate via the first protocol, determine a plugin for the gateway device to enable the gateway device to communicate with the first device, the plugin agent to provision the plugin for the gateway device with respect to the first device.