System device and method for configuring and operating interoperable device having player and engine

An interoperability device comprising:

• (1) a physical Turing complete instruction set based processor coupled with a physical memory capable of autonomously performing general computation and input/output operations;
• (2) at least one communication means for conducting a two way communication over a communications link with other heterogeneous autonomous external and physically distinct devices and which is adapted to dynamically form, break, and reform the communications link with the other physically distinct devices, and wherein the nature of the other heterogeneous autonomous devices and the communication to be conducted while supported need not be known at the time of manufacture of the interoperability device or the other devices;
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• (3) an interoperability engine executing interoperability instructions and running on the processor and encapsulated in an interoperability player embodied in an executable format loadable and executable on the device;
• wherein the interoperability engine includes a dart engine that comprises at least one of software and hardware used to execute instructions contained in dart packages on a device and carry out the instruction intended purpose, a dart package encapsulating the code, data, and content needed for an interoperability application which can then be loaded and run on dart devices containing a running dart engine;
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• the dart engine and a device specific dart player, in which the dart engine is encapsulated, providing a common execution and runtime environment which allows a recruitment process and a renditioning process to establish efficient teams of devices and spread code, data, and content as best to carry out the intended purpose of the darts.

A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system or information appliance, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising:

• a program module that directs the computer system or information appliance to function in a specified manner for operating an autonomous interoperability device in an interoperability mode with other similar or dissimilar autonomous interoperability devices, the program module including instructions for:
• (1) providing a physical Turing complete instruction set executable within a processor coupled with a physical memory and in combination capable of autonomously performing general computation and input/output operations:
• (2) sending and receiving two-way communications over a communications link between at least the autonomous interoperability device and other heterogeneous autonomous external and physically distinct device and which is adapted to dynamically form, break, and reform the communications link with the other physically distinct devices, and wherein the nature of the other heterogeneous autonomous devices and the communication to be conducted while supported need not be known at the time of manufacture of the interoperability device or the other devices;
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• (3) operating an interoperability engine including executing interoperability instructions on the processor and encapsulated in an interoperability player embodied in an executable format loadable and executable on the device;
• wherein the interoperability engine includes a dart engine that comprises at least one of software and hardware and the dart engine executes instructions contained in dart packages on a device and carries out the instruction intended purpose, a dart package encapsulating the code, data, and content needed for an interoperability application which can then be loaded and run on dart devices containing a running dart engine;
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• the dart engine and a device specific dart player, in which the dart engine is encapsulated, providing a common execution and runtime environment which allows a recruitment process and a renditioning process to establish efficient teams of devices and spread code, data, and content as best to carry out the intended purpose of the darts.

An interoperability device comprising:

• (1) a physical Turing complete instruction set based processor coupled with a physical memory capable of autonomously performing general computation and input/output operations;
• (2) at least one communication means for conducting a two way communication over a communications link with other heterogeneous autonomous external and physically distinct devices and which is adapted to dynamically form, break, and reform the communications link with the other physically distinct devices, and wherein the nature of the other heterogeneous autonomous devices and the communication to be conducted while supported need not be known at the time of manufacture of the interoperability device or the other devices;
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• (3) an interoperability engine executing interoperability instructions and running on the processor and encapsulated in an interoperability player embodied in an executable format loadable and executable on the device;
• wherein the interoperability instruction set of instructions is used to represent the code portions of a dart which are executed by the dart engine the interoperability instruction set including instructions to enhance the speed of operations, carry out interoperability methodologies and expose the capabilities and content of devices to each other including instructions for exposing and for enabling access to and use of unique capabilities and content of devices to other device even when the other devices have no prior knowledge of the unique capabilities and content.

A method for operating an autonomous interoperability device in an interoperability mode with other similar or dissimilar autonomous interoperability devices, the method comprising:

• (1) providing a physical Turing complete instruction set executable within a processor coupled with a physical memory and in combination capable of autonomously performing general computation and input/output operations;
• (2) sending and receiving two-way communications over a communications link between at least the autonomous interoperability device and other heterogeneous autonomous external and physically distinct devices and which is adapted to dynamically form. break. and reform the communications link with the other physically distinct devices, and wherein the nature of the other heterogeneous autonomous devices and the communication to be conducted while supported need not be known at the time of manufacture of the interoperability device or the other devices;
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• (3) operating an interoperability engine including executing interoperability instructions on the processor and encapsulated in an interoperability player embodied in an executable format loadable and executable on the device;
• wherein the interoperability engine includes a dart engine that comprises at least one of software and hardware and the dart engine executes instructions contained in dart packages on a device and carries out the instruction intended purpose, a dart package encapsulating the code, data, and content needed for an interoperability application which can then be loaded and run on dart devices containing a running dart engine;
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• the dart engine and a device specific dart player, in which the dart engine is encapsulated, providing a common execution and runtime environment which allows a recruitment process and a renditioning process to establish efficient teams of devices and spread code, data, and content as best to carry out the intended purpose of the darts.