# US 10,481,874 B2 · System architecture for secure and rapid development, deployment and management of analytics and software systems > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,481,874 B2 - Document ID: US10481874B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/338,839 - Filed: 2016-10-31 - Published: 2018-05-03 - Granted: 2019-11-19 - Earliest claimed: 2016-10-31 - Assignees: General Electric Company - Applicants: General Electric Company - Inventors: Arun Karthi Subramaniyan; John Lazos; Natarajan Chennimalai Kumar; Alexandre Iankoulski; Renato Giorgiani Do Nascimento - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10481874B2 ## CPC - G06F 8/20: Software design - G06F 8/34: Graphical or visual programming - G06F 8/35: model driven - G06F 8/61: Installation - G06F 9/541: {via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract According to some embodiments, system, apparatus and methods are provided comprising one or more component models of an analytic model for an installed product; an application programming interface (API) wrapper associated with each of the one or more component models, the API wrapper including information about one or more inputs to the component model; and wherein the component model and the API wrapper form a self-aware component. Numerous other aspects are provided. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus for creating a prediction regarding operations of an installed product comprising: one or more component models of an analytic model for the installed product, wherein the analytic model makes predictions of the installed product; an application programming interface (API) wrapper associated with each of the one or more component models, the API wrapper including information about one or more inputs to the component model; wherein each of the one or more component models and the associated API wrapper including a complete filesystem form a self-aware component; and the analytical model, using one or more of the self-aware components, executes the same way regardless of an execution environment and creates the prediction regarding the installed product in the execution environment; at least a communication channel to supply one or more outputs from the analytic model to the installed product to modify a condition of one or more physical elements of the installed product. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein information about the one or more inputs to the component model further comprises: at least one source of the one or more input. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the at least one input source is a file, a data stream, a data warehouse, a user, and a database. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein information about the one or more outputs from the component model further comprises: at least one destination of the one or more outputs. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The apparatus of claim 4, wherein at least one of the one or more outputs is stored in a JSON file. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each component is operative to: receive the one or more inputs from one or more sources; execute the component model to generate one or more outputs; and transmit the one or more outputs to at least one destination. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a first component of the analytic model communicates with a second component of the analytic model via the API wrapper. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein information about the one or more inputs to the component model includes a definition of the input. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more components is self-registering. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the self-registering component provides information about its contents, working rules and capabilities via emission of a unique signature to register itself in a system with valid interface and security settings. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the API wrapper includes a modeling technique to create the analytic model. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the component includes an integrated self-test for periodically checking the component model with new and existing datasets and trigger corrective actions to update the component model if the component model quality deviates beyond defined thresholds. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein metadata for the component is stored in the component when the component is running. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein if one component of the analytic model fails, the whole analytic model does not fail. ### Claim 15 A method for creating a prediction regarding operations of an installed product comprising: providing the installed product; receiving one or more component models of an analytic model for the installed product, wherein the analytic model makes predictions of the installed product; defining an AP wrapper associated with the component model, the definition including information about one or more inputs to the component and one or more outputs of the component model; generating one or more self-aware components from the component model and the API wrapper including a complete filesystem; using one or more of the self-aware components executing the analytical model the same way regardless of an execution environment and creates the prediction regarding the installed product in the execution environment; and modifying a condition of one or more physical elements of the installed product based on an output signal from the analytic model. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising: executing, via a computer processor, an analytic model for the installed product by executing each component. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method of claim 16, wherein executing each component further comprises: executing a model task of each component model. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein each component and the analytic model is self-registering. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising: receiving information about the one or more inputs from at least one or more input sources. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising: transmitting information about the one or more outputs from the component model to at least one destination. ### Claim 21 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein a first component of the analytic model communicates with a second component of the analytic model via the API wrapper. ### Claim 22 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein information about the one or more inputs to the component model includes a definition of the input. ### Claim 23 A system for creating a prediction regarding operations of an installed product comprising: one or more of the installed products; a computer processor to: receive a component model of an analytic model for the installed product, wherein the analytic model makes predictions of the installed product; receive an application programming interface (API) wrapper associated with each of the one or more component models, the API wrapper including information about one or more inputs to the component model and one or more outputs of the component model, wherein the component model and the API wrapper including a complete filesystem form a self-aware component; the analytical model, using one or more of the self-aware components, executes the same way regardless of an execution environment and creates the prediction regarding the installed product in the execution environment: at least one communication channel for supplying one or more inputs to the component model; a memory in communication with the computer processor, the memory storing the component and additional program instructions; and wherein the communication channel supplies output from the analytic model to the installed product to modify a condition of one or more physical elements of the installed product. ### Claim 24 (depends on 18) The system of claim 18, wherein the processor is operative with the additional program instructions to perform functions as follows: receiving the one or more inputs from one or more input sources; executing the component model to generate one or more outputs; and transmitting the one or more outputs to at least one output destination. ### Claim 25 (depends on 18) The system of claim 18, wherein each component and the analytic model is self-registering.