Network-accessible resource management system with distributable governance

A communications interface computing device for interfacing, over a communication network, a resource-related computing device with resource agents via a resource agent connector associated with the resource-related computing device, said at least one resource agent connector comprising digital resource connection information stored in an accessible digital data register for providing access to control of one of one or more capabilities or one or more characteristics of said resources, each of said resource agents being implemented on a network-accessible resource management computing device and digitally representing, based on digital resource description information stored in said accessible digital data register, a corresponding selectable resource-specific aspect of a resource associated with the resource-related computing device, said resource-specific aspect selected from at least one of one or more capabilities or one or more characteristics of said resource, each said resource agent connector configured to provide control of the corresponding at least one selectable resource-specific aspect of the resource-related computing device to the corresponding resource agent, said resource agent connectors connecting said resource-related computing device and said resource agent by direct association therebetween, or by indirect association therebetween via at least one second resource agent representing at least the same resource-specific aspect, each said at least one resource agent implementing said control of the resource-specific aspect via a corresponding second resource agent connector of each at least one second resource agent based on the corresponding connection information, the communications interface computing device comprising:

• at least one processor;
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• at least one network communications bus, having access to said resource management computing device and being configured to accept interoperability information relating to a communications protocol from an existing rights holder, said interoperability information configured to enable communications to the communications interface computing device by the resource-related computing device that communicates in accordance with said communications protocol;
• wherein said interoperability information has associated therewith distributable digital resource governance permissions for implementing governance control over a given resource-specific aspect of a given resource by a given corresponding resource agent, said distributable digital resource governance permissions distributable by said existing rights holder to a downstream rights holder, wherein said distributable digital resource governance permissions comprise a distribution permission, which, if granted by said existing rights holder, allows said downstream rights holder to further distribute governance over said interoperability information, without prior authorization or limitation from any upstream rights holder, independently and autonomously of the corresponding resource-related computing device, any corresponding resource connector, and any upstream resource agent, to a further downstream rights holder, wherein each said downstream governance rights holder implements distributed governance permissions distributed thereto, without prior authorization or limitation from any upstream rights holder, autonomously of any upstream governance rights holder and any upstream resource agent through instantiation of one or more additional resource agents connected by corresponding additional resource agent connectors to the given corresponding resource agent for controlling at least some of the at least one of one or more capabilities and one or more characteristics selected by said upstream user via the given corresponding resource agent and its corresponding resource agent connector;
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• wherein said resource agent to is provided remote control to said resource-related computing device via said resource connector, directly or indirectly, in accordance with a designated digital resource-specific access control criteria distributed as part of said distributable digital resource governance permissions.