Patent ID: 9680726
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for determining an association among Internet of Things (IoT) devices, comprising: receiving, at a first IoT device, an identifier of a second IoT device; obtaining, by the first IoT device, a schema of the second IoT device based on the identifier of the second IoT device; and determining, by the first IoT device, whether or not there is an association between the first IoT device and the second IoT device based on a schema of the first IoT device and the schema of the second IoT device, wherein the schema of the first IoT device comprises schema elements and corresponding values associated with attributes of the first IoT device and the schema of the second IoT device comprises schema elements and corresponding values associated with attributes of the second IoT device.