Disclosed herein is a method of a network operator controller for managing a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT)-devices associated with an IoT device owner and connected to a wireless network. The method comprises receiving a list of IoT devices that are scheduled for a firmware update, wherein the list is indicative of respective update data and update procedure for each IoT device of the list; determining at least one network node serving a geographical area covering a respective location of each of the IoT devices of the list of devices; causing caching of the respective update data; determining an updating schedule indicative of when each IoT device is to receive its respective update data; and instructing the at least one network node to update the IoT devices with the cached respective update data according to the updating schedule and update procedure.

Aspects of the present invention relate to a method of communication between a first electronic device operatively connected to a data communications network within a vehicle, and a second electronic device operatively connected to the data communications network, the method comprising: sending a first message between the first and second electronic devices, outputting a first control signal to cause the operative state of the first or second electronic device to be reset, in dependence on a response message not having been received within a time period equal to a predetermined time period threshold.

Disclosed is a network configuration method for a home appliance, which is applied in a network configuration terminal. The network configuration method for the home appliance includes: sending, by the network configuration terminal, a generation instruction of generating an initial code to a target home appliance; and acquiring, based on the generation instruction, the initial code generated by the target home appliance, for a control terminal to communicate with a WIFI module of the target home appliance based on the initial code. A network configuration terminal and a computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.

A method, system, and computer-readable medium for enabling a client application to access an online service, such as an online AI service, without requiring the developer of the client application to fully understand the interface contract of the online service and write software code integrating the client application directly with the interface of the online service. In one aspect, the interface contract of the online service is automatically analyzed, and the client application developer is presented with options for configuring the mapping of data fields between the client application or client application database and the online service. Based on the developer's configuration choices, software code is automatically generated for exchanging data between the client application or client application database and the online service. Trigger conditions for the software code may be changes in the database state, predefined events, or requests received from the client application.

A vehicle data communication device mounted in a vehicle having a plurality of ECUs. The vehicle data communication device wirelessly communicates data with a center device. The vehicle data communication device comprises: a plurality of communication clients each pairing with a respective one of a plurality of distribution servers included in the center device; a communication information acquisition unit acquiring information of a communication carrier and a region where the center device is located; a client storage unit storing the plurality of communication clients each of which corresponds to the corresponding one of the plurality of distribution servers; and a client selection unit (i) selecting one of the plurality of communication clients that corresponds to the communication carrier and the region that are specified by the information and (ii) activating the selected one of the plurality of communication clients to enable data communication with the corresponding distribution server.

A server may exchange data with a plurality of scene equipment. The server acquires a registration request sent by a scene equipment. The server groups the scene equipment according to group identification information in the registration request, acquiring a plurality of groups. The server manages scene equipment of a group in the plurality of groups uniformly according to to-be-processed data reported by the scene equipment of the group. The to-be-processed data include at least one of operating state data or scene data.

A method for automated web resource deployment is provided. The method comprises creating web resource publication requests, wherein each web resource publication request comprises a number of configuration changes necessary to publish a web resource, on a network, at a particular uniform resource location. A standard format, validation workflow, and an approval workflow are provided for automation of the web resource publication requests. Once validated and approved, web resource publication requests are automatically converted to API calls which are executed on backend servers to implement the configuration changes required in the environment without further human intervention.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an administration system, is provided. The administration system has a client device, an administration device including the computer, a device configured to operate based on commands from the client device, and a storage configured to store a plurality of units of user information concerning a user of the client device. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to acquire device designating information being a designated one of units of device information set to the device from the device, acquire user designating information being a designated one of the units of user information set to the user from the storage, and reflect the acquired device designating information and the acquired user designating information in a distributing file to be delivered to the client device of the user.

According to various examples, a processing system is described comprising a plurality of hardware circuit components, each hardware circuit component configured to provide a processing functionality, a data path leading through the plurality of hardware circuit components, at least one programmable circuit and a controller configured to select one of the hardware circuit components to be replaced by the at least one programmable circuit, program the programmable circuit to provide the processing functionality provided by the selected hardware circuit component and configure the data path to lead through the programmable circuit instead of the selected hardware circuit component.

Various systems and methods for enhancing a distributed computing environment with multiple edge hosts and user devices, including in multi-access edge computing (MEC) network platforms and settings, are described herein. A device of a lifecycle management (LCM) proxy apparatus obtains a request, from a device application, for an application multiple context of an application. The application multiple context for the application is determined. The request from the device application for the application multiple context for the application is authorized. A device application identifier based on the request is added to the application multiple context. A created response for the device application based on the authorization of the request is transmitted to the device application. The response includes an identifier of the application multiple context.