Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an event scheme for context models

A method comprising:

• defining an event scheme comprising at least two phases, one of the at least two phases enabling provision of a notification from a consumer application to a data provider and the other of the at least two phases enabling provision of a notification from the data provider to the consumer application, wherein the other of the at least two phases enabling provision of the notification from the data provider to the consumer application further comprises:
• defining an auxiliary root node that stops propagation in response to the auxiliary root node being encountered along a propagation path for propagation of the notification;
• causing a notification to be sent to one or more event listeners of a corresponding context topology;
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• causing one or more multi-dimensional data spaces to be provided for one or more represented objects;
• and;
• causing the event scheme to be provided for use in a topologically independent context model configured to provide access by consumer applications to property information of data providers via the context model.

A computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instruction comprising:

• program code instructions for defining an event scheme comprising at least two phases, one of the at least two phases enabling provision of a notification from a consumer application to a data provider and the other of the at least two phases enabling provision of a notification from the data provider to the consumer application, wherein the other of the at least two phases enabling provision of the notification from the data provider to the consumer application is further configured to:
• define an auxiliary root node that stops propagation in response to the auxiliary root node being encountered along a propagation path for propagation of the notification;
• cause a notification to be sent to one or more event listeners of a corresponding context topology;
• and
• cause one or more multi-dimensional data spaces to be provided for one or more represented objects;
• and
• program code instructions for causing the event scheme to be provided for use in a topologically independent context model configured to provide access by consumer applications to property information of data providers via the context model.