Transaction resources for stateless message protocol

Abstract

A communications device, such as an Internet-of-Things device, includes an entity resource to originate or consume data, and core resources to facilitate stateless messaging with a remote device, with the messaging being associated with the entity resource. Transaction resources are provided to manage a transaction with the remote device. The transaction includes a sequence of messages associated with the entity resource. The transaction resources include a transaction state machine to represent a current intra-transactional ephemeral state from among a plurality of intra-transactional ephemeral states representing progression of the transaction, a commit handler to institute a persistent state change related to the entity resource in response to a successful completion of the transaction, and a transaction communicator to conduct intra-transaction communications via the core resources directed to corresponding transactional resources of the remote device.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A communications device, comprising:
 a computing platform, including a processor, a data store, and communication facilities, the computing platform to implement:
 an entity resource to originate or consume data; 
 core resources to facilitate stateless messaging with a remote device associated with the entity resource; and 
 transaction resources to manage a transaction with the remote device that includes a sequence of messages associated with the entity resource, the transaction resources including: 
 a transaction state machine to represent a current intra-transactional ephemeral state from among a plurality of intra-transactional ephemeral states representing progression of the transaction; 
 a commit handler to institute a persistent state change related to the entity resource in response to a successful completion of the transaction; and 
 a transaction communicator to conduct intra-transaction communications via the core resources directed to corresponding transactional resources of the remote device.