System for Managing Real Time Ad-Hoc Service Relationships Between Services and Network Attached Client Devices
AssigneePico Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsMichael Hathaway, Christopher Wilder
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Abstract
A system comprising network based servers and a data management system providing a unified method for managing real time ad-hoc service relationships between service providers and network attached devices connected directly to the network or attached to a network attached premises gateway. Functions of a system include device/gateway network address discovery, transaction and access security, access permissions between elements in a service network and tracking of transactions between network elements.
Claims2
A method for data management, the method comprising:
- managing one or more ad-hoc service relationships in one or more computer servers, the managing between one or more service providers and one or more client devices, the managing including
- identifying each service required by each service provider with a service related unique identifier;
- identifying each client device of the one or more client devices with a client device related unique identifier;
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- managing data associated with the one or more ad-hoc service relationships using one or more of the service related unique identifiers and the one or more client device related unique identifiers;
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- authenticating via a service portal the one or more ad-hoc service relationships including authenticating interactions between the one or more service providers and the one or more client devices.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium configured to perform one or more acts for performing management of ad-hoc service relationships the one or more acts comprising:
- one or more instructions for managing one or more ad-hoc service relationships in one or more computer servers, the managing between one or more service providers and one or more client devices, the managing including
- one or more instructions for identifying each service required by each, service provider with a service related unique identifier;
- one or more instructions for identifying each client device of the one or more client devices with a client device related unique identifier;
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- one or more instructions for managing data associated with the one or more ad-hoc service relationships using one or more of the service related unique identifiers and the one or more client device related unique identifiers;
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- one or more instructions for authenticating via a service portal the one or more ad-hoc service relationships including authenticating interactions between the one or more service providers and the one or more client devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.