Meta-model object communication and node definition system and processes for provisioning objects defined in a neutral definition language of a node meta-model

• US 10,643,151 B1
• Filed: 01/26/2017
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Devices
• Original Assignee: Universal Devices
• Inventors: Jahn, Chris, Kohanim, Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): Hicks, Austin
• Application Number:
  US15/417,058
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/24 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/465 Distributed object oriented systems remote method invocation [RMI] G06F9/548
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

Node meta-model systems and processes are disclosed which provide a seamless run-time integration between disparate devices, objects, frameworks, and/or agents (“objects”) without a priori knowledge of the types of objects, their capabilities, accepted commands/events, and underlying frameworks, and without expending any development effort. By introducing a node meta model, each system, device, and framework is described using its capabilities, properties, events, and methods of communications and thus an agent, at run-time, can figure out how to integrate/communicate with these systems accurately and without any development effort.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a node meta-model object provisioning program which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, evaluates objects and provisions nodes for the objects in a node meta-model that describes the capabilities, properties, events, and methods of communication of the objects so that at least one of an agent and an object can communicate and interact with the objects without any prior knowledge of the objects, said node meta-model object provisioning program comprising sets of instructions for:

requesting, directly from an object comprising one of a device, a physical object, and a virtual object, approval to provision a node for the object in a node meta-model;

requesting, directly from the object, a definition of the object;

receiving the definition directly from the object, said definition including a parameter associated with a property the object maintains and a command associated with an action which when accepted by the object triggers the object to perform the action, wherein the property is associated with a plurality of property values over a range, wherein the definition is used in provisioning the node in the node meta-model as a node definition of the object, wherein the node definition includes a first status value associated with the property the object maintains and a second status value associated with the action triggered by the command;

requesting, directly from the object and based on the node definition, a plurality of editors comprising a first editor associated with the first status value and a second editor associated with the second status value, wherein the first editor is a setting tool to set the parameter associated with the property the object maintains, wherein the second editor is an issuing tool to issue the command associated with the action to trigger the object to perform the action;

receiving the plurality of editors from the object, wherein the first editor allows selection of a particular property value from the plurality of property values over the range, wherein the parameter associated with the property the object maintains is set to the particular property value in the node definition of the object when the particular property value is selected by way of the first editor;

determining whether the object includes national language support (NLS);

requesting NLS from the object when the object includes NLS;

receiving NLS from the object for node definition of the object in the node meta-model; and

provisioning the node for the object in the node-meta model.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the node meta-model object provisioning program further comprises a set of instructions for translating the node definition of the object using NLS.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the node meta-model object provisioning program further comprises a set of instructions for translating the plurality of property values over the range using NLS, wherein the first editor sets the parameter associated with the property according to the NLS translation of the property value selected by a client from plurality of property values over the range for the object.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 3, wherein NLS provides language information for easy translation of human readable information comprising one or more of commands, controls, and statuses in different languages, wherein the language information includes a set of language translations of the human readable information, wherein each language translation of the human readable information corresponds to a language used in a particular locale.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 4, wherein the NLS information comprises replicated information in each of a plurality of languages that allow the client to present the same information differently depending on a locale in which the object is physically located.