Method and device for controlling peripheral devices via a social networking platform

摘要

A method and device for transmitting data between a peripheral device and a user device via a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, comprising: at the peripheral device: transmitting data to the user device in a simulated data stream, the transmitting comprising: identifying a first Bluetooth characteristic for writing data, the first Bluetooth characteristic having been exposed by the peripheral device to the user device; dividing a data packet into a sequence of data frames plus zero or one remainder, each data frame having a respective size equal to a predetermined data size of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic; and for each of the sequence of data frames: writing the data frame to a respective value for the identified first Bluetooth characteristic; and pushing the identified first Bluetooth characteristic for reading by the user device.

主权项

1. A method of communicating with a peripheral device over a social networking platform, comprising:
at a server of the social network platform:
registering the peripheral device as an associated peripheral device of a user device coupled to the peripheral device, wherein the registering assigns a respective social network identity on the social network platform to the peripheral device;receiving a first push request data packet from a server of a support service provider for a type of peripheral devices including the peripheral device, wherein the first push request data packet identifies the peripheral device as a target of the first push request data packet, and wherein the first push request data packet includes an encoded instruction for the peripheral device; andin response to receiving the first push request data packet:
forwarding the first push request data packet to the peripheral device via the user device coupled to the peripheral device; andsending, to the user device, data representing an instant message targeting the social network identity of the peripheral device, wherein the instant message is a human readable translation of the encoded instruction for the peripheral device and the instant message is displayed at the user device in a conversation log of a chat session between the social network identify of the peripheral device and one or more other social network identities on the social network platform.