Digital data access control and automated synthesization of capabilities

A computer system for identifying capabilities of a group of electronic devices, each device of the group having one or more capabilities, at least a first subset of the devices of the group being connected to a middle-ware platform by means of a data link, the computer system comprising:

• a device catalog listing known devices and capabilities of each listed device;
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• an observer module having access to data streams between the middle-ware platform and the subset of the devices and being configured to observe the data streams, wherein the observer module is a software module of the computing system,
• wherein the observer module is configured to identify, based on the observed data streams and using artificial intelligence, capabilities of the devices of the subset, wherein the device catalog is updated with the identified capabilities wherein the computer system further comprises:
• a capability catalog listing capabilities available in the group, wherein the capability catalog is updated with the identified capabilities;
• a capabilities definition catalog providing definitions for synthesized capabilities or rules for constituting synthesized capabilities, wherein synthesized capabilities are capabilities that can be constituted based on other capabilities or synthesized by combining capabilities listed in the capability catalog;
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• a capability synthesizing module configured to synthesize, based on the information from the capability definition catalog and based on capabilities available in the group, synthesized capabilities, wherein the synthesized capabilities are stored in the device catalog and in the capability catalog, wherein the capability synthesizing module is a software module of the computing system.