US 7,103,420 B2 · Method for implementing device operations based on device status information stored in a central location

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system to monitor the statuses of devices that can operate and transmit current device status information to a storage location. In this system, there is a can be a central storage location of the status of all designated device attributes of a device including the past state history of the device. The storage location can also be distributed and in one or more remote locations. Each device on the system will transmit a state change notification to the central location each time the status of the device changes. This status change will be recorded in the location storage. The present invention provides for the creation of sets of instructions to enable the initiation of operations by devices in response to a set of current statuses of one or more devices. Each workflow routine will be based on a set device statuses. This set of device statuses can be referred as a device scenario. When a status of a device changes, there will be check of the statuses of the devices in the scenario to determine if the scenario conditions for the workflow have been met. When the conditions have been met, the workflow routine will be initiated and perform a set of instructions which could lead to the initiating of some activity by one or more devices in the network.

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Dependent claims

A method for initiating routines that control device activities on a computerized system for a facility, for routing initiation being based on status information, of system devices in the facility, stored in a central location of the computerized system, comprising the steps of:

defining a set of conditions in which the operation of a device is to be automatically controlled;
defining a set of one or more devices that will have status data that will impact the defined condition;
detecting a change in the status of one of the devices in the defined set of devices;
determining whether the status change of device creates a set of device statuses that match the defined condition under which the operation of a device is to be automatically controlled;
and
initializing one or more routines to effect the operation of a device on the system based on the occurrence of the defined conditions.

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A computer program product in a computer readable medium for initiating routines that control device activities on a computerized system for a facility the routine initiation being based on status information, of system devices in the facility, stored in a central location of the computerized system, comprising:

instructions for defining a set of two or more conditions in which the operation of a device is to be automatically controlled;
instructions for defining a set of two or more devices that will have status data that will impact the defined condition;
instructions for defining a set of attributes for each of the set of the devices that will be used to impact the defined condition;
instructions for detecting a change in the status of one of the devices in the defined set of devices;
instructions for determining whether the status change of device creates a set of device statuses that match the defined condition under which the operation of a device is to be automatically controlled;
and
instructions for initializing one or more routines to effect the operation of a device in the network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method for implementing device operations based on device status information stored in a central location

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Method for implementing device operations based on device status information stored in a central location

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