System and method for defining machine-to-machine communicating devices and defining and distributing computational tasks among same

A service definition for a machine-to-machine communicating device, the sen/ice definition being a data structure comprising:

• a service property describing a state of an attribute of the machine-to-machine communicating device;
• a service method operable to cause a change in the state of the service property;
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• a service event defining the result of performing the service method;
• wherein the service property is directed to an attribute shared between differing types of machine-to-machine communicating devices;
• and
• wherein the service method is operable to change the state of the service properly on differing types of machine-to-machine communicating devices.

A programmable device comprising a service definition for a machine-to-machine communicating device, the service definition being a data structure comprising:

• a service property describing a state of an attribute of the machine-to-machine communicating device and being operable to be monitored concurrent with the same service property on a differing machine-to-machine communicating device;
• a service method operable to
• cause a change in the state of the service property;
• and
• be executed concurrent with the same service method on a differing machine-to-machine communicating device by a single command;
• and
• a service event defining the result of performing the service method and being operable to be received concurrent with the same service event from a differing machine-to-machine communicating device;
• wherein the service property is directed to an attribute shared between differing types of machine-to-machine communicating devices;
• and
• wherein the service method is operable to change the state of the service property on differing types of machine-to-machine communicating devices.