Networked device control using a high-level programming interface

A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions which, in response to being executed by a computer processor circuit, cause a set of steps to be carried out, the set of steps comprising:

• using a set of instructions written in a first programming language to provide, over a data-communication network, a set of virtual office features as part of data-communications services available to remotely-situated client entities;
• generating at and/or receiving over a broadband communications network from data-processing computer circuitry associated with a particular one of the remotely-situated client entities, another set of instructions written in a second programming language by populating the other set of instructions with client-specific directives, wherein the second programming language is a subset of the first programming language with less than all of the instructions available from the first programming language, corresponds to a high-level scripting computer language that defines constraints on a set of valid instructions that can be carried out by server computer circuitry providing the data-communications services, and is associated with the set of virtual office features;
• and
• using the client-specific directives to adjust selected ones of the set of virtual office features for each of a plurality of endpoint devices that is associated with the particular one of the remotely-situated client entities.

An apparatus comprising:

• a computing-processor circuit to
• use a set of instructions written in a first programming language to provide, over at least one data-communication network, a set of virtual office features as part of data-communications services available to remotely-situated client entities;
• receive over at least one broadband data-communication network and from data-processing computer circuitry which is associated with a particular one of the remotely-situated client entities, another set of instructions written in a second programming language by populating the other set of instructions with client-specific directives, wherein the second programming language is a subset of the first programming language with less than all of the instructions available from the first programming language, corresponds to a high-level scripting computer language that defines constraints on a set of valid instructions that can be carried out by server computer circuitry that is to provide the data-communications services, and is associated with the set of virtual office features;
• and
• adjust selected ones of the set of virtual office features, for one or more of a plurality of endpoint devices associated with the particular one of the remotely-situated client entities, based on the client-specific directives.