COMMUNICATION SESSIONS AT A COAP PROTOCOL LAYER

摘要

Functionality is added to the CoAP and WebSocket protocols to enable the creation of communication sessions, or connections, at a CoAP layer of a communications network. In one aspect, a connection is created at the CoAP layer using CoAP RESTful messages. In another aspect, new CoAP Options are introduced to request initiation and deletion of a connection at the CoAP layer. In yet another aspect, new CoAP Codes are introduced to request initiation and deletion of a connection at the CoAP layer. In a further aspect, new CoAP Tokens are introduced to request initiation and deletion of a connection at the CoAP layer.