Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for a unified mechanism for storing device, application and service states, as well as a rich notification intermediation architecture. SOLUTION: Clients register with a notification intermediator so as to receive notifications of changes in state properties. When a registered state property is changed, the notification determines clients to be notified of the state change and provides the clients with a notification of the change. Clients may be notified at any time a state changes, or when a state change meets predetermined conditions, or according to schedule. Also, an application may be activated in response to a state change. An application programming interface (API) for providing a unified way of accessing state change information is provided across various components in a device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
In scenarios involving a data set accessible through a protocol, operations sets may be formulated for performing various operations on the data set, and may be expressed as resource scripts according to a scripting language. However, such resource scripts may be difficult to design due to the complicated aspects of the interaction, such as asynchrony, network transport, the syntax of the scripting language, and the details of the protocol. A design environment may be devised to facilitate designers in generating resource scripts, e.g., through the manipulation of visual elements. The design environment may abstract the lower-level working details of the resource scripts, and may allow designers to focus on the logical designing of the operations set. The design environment may then automatically generate the resource script from the operations set in accordance with the constraints of the script language and the protocol.