Facilitating communications via a mobile internet-enabled connection interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9832802-B2
Application number	US-201514969126-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2015
Priority date	Dec 15, 2015
Publication date	Nov 28, 2017
Grant date	Nov 28, 2017

Abstract

Apparatus, methods and systems facilitating communications via a mobile internet-enabled connection interface are provided. One apparatus is configured to perform various operations, including detecting a wired connection with a first device coupled to a physical port of physical ports of the apparatus; and determining information indicative of a service provided via a second device, wherein the first device is a device configured to communicate with a device at a same location of the first device and to whom the first device is connected within a local area network at the same location of the first device and the device. The operations also include facilitating the establishment of a communication path over a network between the apparatus and the second device for service provisioning between the second device and the first device, wherein the second device is located at a different location from the first device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform operations, comprising:
detecting a wired connection with a first device coupled to a physical port of physical ports of the apparatus;
determining information indicative of a service provided via a second device, wherein the first device is configured to communicate with a third device at a same location of the first device and to which the first device is connected via a first network device of a local area network at the same location of the first device and the third device; and
establishing a wireless communication path via a second network device of a network between the apparatus and the second device for service provisioning between the second device and the first device, wherein the second device is located at a different location from the first device, wherein the network operates according to a different communication protocol other than that of the local area network, and wherein, as a result of the establishment of the wireless communication path, the first device and the second device become configured to detect one another as being locally attached to one another,

wherein the service comprises an application that is executing at least partly on the second network device and is provided via the second device, and wherein the operations further comprise:
determining, between the first device and the second device, a selected type of access of types of access, and wherein the selected type of access is based on permission information stored by a directory service of the apparatus; and
prior to the determining between the first device and the second device, determining the permission information stored by the directory service.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first device comprises a universal serial bus storage device and the selected type of access for the second device is read and write access of the universal serial bus storage device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first device comprises a universal serial bus storage device and the selected type of access is read access of the universal serial bus storage device.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first device comprises a universal serial bus storage device and the application is associated with software applications, and wherein a first software application of the software applications is authorized to have a first type of access to the first device and a second software application of the software applications is authorized to have a second type of access to the first device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the establishing the wireless communication path comprises establishing an encrypted wireless communication path for an encrypted communication between the apparatus and the second device, and wherein the encrypted communication is protected from access by the first device.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus comprises a first portion comprising the physical ports and configured to transmit information via the physical ports, and a second portion comprising a network interface configured to generate an encrypted communication path between the apparatus and the second device, and wherein the information is unencrypted.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the physical ports are configured to facilitate communication via different communication protocols.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
concurrently providing communications between multiple devices connected to respective ones of the physical ports and respective multiple end devices, and wherein the communications are provided via network devices of the network and the multiple end devices are located remote from the multiple devices.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first device comprises a scanner.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second device is associated with a driver for the apparatus at the different location of the second device.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the driver for the apparatus comprises a docker container driver.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the driver for the apparatus is a hypervisor driver.

13. A method, comprising:
detecting, by a device comprising a processor, a wired connection with a first device coupled to a physical port of physical ports of the apparatus;
determining, by the device, information indicative of a service provided via a second device; and
establishing, by the device, a wireless communication path via a network device of a network between the device and the second device for service provisioning between the second device and the first device, wherein the second device is located at a different location from the first device, wherein the network operates according to a different communication protocol other than that of the local area network, and wherein, as a result of the establishing the wireless communication path, the first device and the second device become configured to detect one another as being locally attached to one another, wherein the service comprises an application that is executing at least partly on the network device and is provided via the second device;
providing, by the device, between the first device and the second device, a selected type of access of types of access, and wherein the selected type of access is based on permission information stored by a directory service of the apparatus; and
prior to the providing, determining, by the device, the permission information stored by the directory service.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first device comprises a universal serial bus storage device and the selected type of access for the second device is read and write access of the universal serial bus storage device.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first device comprises a universal serial bus storage device and the selected type of access is read access of the universal serial bus storage device.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
detecting a wired connection with a first device coupled to a physical port of physical ports of the apparatus;
determining information indicative of a service provided via a second device; and
establishing a wireless communication path via a network device of a network for service provisioning between the second device and the first device, wherein the second device is located at a different location from the first device, wherein the network operates according to a different communication protocol other than that of the local area network, and wherein, as a result of the establishing the wireless communication path, the first device and the second device become configured to detect one another as being locally attached to one another, wherein the service comprises an application that is executing at least partly on the network device and is provided via the second device;
determining between the first device and the second device, a selected type of access of types of access, and wherein the selected type of access is based on permission information stored by a directory service of the apparatus; and
prior to the determining between the first device and the second device, determining the permission information stored by the directory service.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , where

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Kreiner Barrett M
• Spell Randall S
• Schaub Ryan

Classifications

• H04L63/0272

  Virtual private networks · CPC title

• H04W72/51

  based on terminal or device properties · CPC title

• H04L12/2856

  Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access (asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W) · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04W76/12

  Setup of transport tunnels · CPC title