Patent US10230798

Distributed edge processing of internet of things device data in co-location facilities
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US10230798

1. A method comprising: (10) (5)

selecting, by at least one of a plurality of edge computing systems co-located within respective co-location facilities each deployed and managed by a single co-location facility provider, a selected edge computing system of the plurality of edge computing systems to process data generated by an Internet of Things (IoT) device;

provisioning, by the at least one of the plurality of edge computing systems, a proxy executing on one or more computing devices for processing the data at the selected edge computing system;

provisioning, at a gateway device of the selected edge computing system, an application programming interface (API) endpoint associated with the proxy for communication with the IoT device;

receiving, by the selected edge computing system at the API endpoint, the data generated by the IoT device; and

processing, by the proxy of the selected edge computing system, the data generated by the IoT device and received at the API endpoint.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (2)

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising: by the proxy, performing network protocol translation on the data generated by the IoT device. (0)

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (2)

5. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the data comprises routing, by the selected edge computing system, the data to a core processing system. (0)

6. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the selected edge computing system comprises selecting the selected edge computing system in response to an IoT device registration manager of one of the edge computing systems receiving a device registration request from the IoT device, the method further comprising: managing registration and authentication of the IoT device by the IoT device registration manager. (0)

7. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the selected edge computing system comprises selecting based on IoT device type and configured policies. (0)

8. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the selected edge computing system comprises selecting based on IoT device location and configured policies, wherein the second edge computing system is located geographically closest to the IoT device. (0)

9. The method of claim 1, (0) (1)

10. The method of claim 1, (0) (1)

11. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the data comprises processing the data by one or more computing devices of a cloud service provider. (0)

12. A system comprising: (3) (2)

a plurality of edge computing systems co-located within respective co-location facilities each deployed and managed by a single co-location facility provider, wherein at least one of the plurality of edge systems is configured to select a selected edge computing system of the plurality of edge computing systems to process data generated by an Internet of Things (IoT) device and provision a proxy on one or more computing devices for processing the data; and

a gateway device of the selected edge computing system configured to provision an application programming interface (API) endpoint for communication with the IoT device, wherein the API endpoint is associated with the of the selected edge computing system, receive, at the API endpoint, the data generated by the IoT device, and process the data generated by the IoT device and received at the API endpoint.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein each of the edge computing systems comprises: (0) (3)

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the proxy filters the data generated by the IoT devices based on configured policies, and discards a subset of the data generated by the IoT devices without forwarding the subset of the data to a core processing system. (0)

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the selected edge computing system comprises: (0) (1)

16. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions that when executed cause one or more processors of an edge computing system to: (0) (5)

select the edge computing system, from among a plurality of edge computing systems co-located within respective co-location facilities each deployed and managed by a single co-location facility provider, to process data generated by an Internet of Things (IoT) device;

provision a proxy executing on one or more computing devices of the edge computing system for processing the data at the selected edge computing system;

provision an application programming interface (API) endpoint associated with the proxy at a gateway device of the edge computing system for communication with the IoT device;

receive at the API endpoint the data generated by the IoT device; and

process, by the proxy of the edge computing system, the data generated by the IoT device and received at the API endpoint.

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Patent US10230798

Distributed edge processing of internet of things device data in co-location facilities

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