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 a support service provider for a type of peripheral devices including the peripheral device: registering with a server of the social network platform as the support service provider for the peripheral device; initiating a communication event to send an instruction to the peripheral device, initiating the communication event comprising:
generating a push request data packet for the instruction, wherein the push request data packet identifies the peripheral device as a target of the instruction; andsending the push request data packet to the peripheral device via the server of the social networking platform and a user device coupled to the peripheral device.