US 11,750,448 B2
Network device-integrated asset tag-based environmental sensing with mutual authentication
Nitin Singla, Bangalore (IN); Yashavantha Nagaraju Naguvanahalli, Bangalore (IN); and Sunil Jayadevappa, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US)
Filed by HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/530,536.
Prior Publication US 2021/0036918 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 12/069 (2021.01); H04L 61/5014 (2022.01); H04L 101/618 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0806 (2013.01) [H04L 61/5014 (2022.05); H04L 63/0869 (2013.01); H04W 12/069 (2021.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04L 2101/618 (2022.05)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network device, comprising:
a transceiver exchanging communications data with a wireless computing device in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network further comprises a syslog server;
a first asset tag integrated into the network device, comprising:
one or more environmental sensors embedded in the first asset tag communicating environmental data external and internal to the network device to a network management server of the wireless network in conjunction with location information obtained from the first asset tag, the network device and the asset tag creating at least a portion of a sensory network, the sensory network further comprising a second asset tag communicating additional location information of a neighboring network device to which the environmental data communicated by the first asset tag is imputed to the neighboring network device when sufficiently proximate to the network device,
wherein the syslog server receives at least one of the environmental data and the location information from the network device, and forwards the at least one of the environmental data and the location information to the network management server,
wherein the network device receives an OpenFlow configuration from the network management server pursuant to notifying the network management server of a license assignment to a syslog application, the syslog application consuming the environmental data and the location information from the network device and forwarding the environmental data and the location information to the syslog server, and
wherein the network device establishes an OpenFlow connection with an OpenFlow controller operatively connected to the syslog application through which the environmental data and the location information pass.