US 2020/0351341 A1Published application

System method and model for social synchronization interoperability among intermittently connected interoperating devices

OwnerDaniel Illowsky, Bruce Bernstein +5inventors

InventorsDaniel Illowsky, Bruce Bernstein, Richard Mirabella, Wolfgang Pieb, Raymond Sidney, Richard Tiberi, Michael Wenocur

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Abstract

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. A social synchronization interoperability method, such as a Dart Social Synchronization method provides an efficient and easy to administrate method for synchronizing specific sets of data and/or operations across any number of devices and protocols without the need for every device to contact a master device, or for any device to act as a master. Social synchronization of devices and content provides an advantageous alternative to mastered synchronization techniques.

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Dependent claims

An interoperability platform that facilitates interoperability among a plurality of otherwise incompatible devices having different communications protocols, the interoperability platform comprising:

(a) a gateway that enables communications with each of a first device and a second device, wherein the first device and second device communicate with the gateway via different communications protocols;
and
(b) an interoperability environment within the gateway comprising an interoperability format that enables:
(i) creation of a plurality of remote device handlers, including a first remote device handler that communicates with and controls the operation of the first device via the gateway, and a second remote device handler that communicates with and controls the operation of the second device via the gateway;
(ii) maintenance of a shared state, including a current state of both the first device and the second device;
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(ii) the creation an interoperability application that implements cooperative functionality between the first device and the second device utilizing the shared state, wherein the cooperative functionality includes invocation of functionality on the second device via the second remote device handler based upon a change in the current state of the first device.

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Application: 16/883,179Filed 26 May 2020
Priority: 8 Jun 2004
Published: 5 Nov 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification45 codes

H04N 21/41265
The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones: having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote…
G06F 1/3203
Means for saving power: power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
G06F 8/10
Arrangements for software engineering: requirements analysis; Specification techniques
G06F 8/20
Arrangements for software engineering: software design

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Application60/577,971Us provisional application · filed 8 Jun 2004
Application11/149,068Division · filed 8 Jun 2005
Application13/175,409Continuation · filed 1 Jul 2011
Application15/256,264Continuation · filed 2 Sep 2016
Application16/883,179Continuation
Application13/175,409Division
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