Google Inc.

Carles Pi-Sunyer

Igor Karp

Mark Andrew McBride

Lev Stesin

Alexander Dubman

Yoky Matsuoka

Mark Rajan Malhotra

Jesse William Boettcher

Evan Jarman Fisher

Christopher Anthony Boross

Prashant Papiahgari Reddy

Samuel W Kortz

Todd Hester

James P Lyons

Leon Tan

David Horton

Andrew Urman

Gregory J Hu

Amanda Surya

Aubrey Thelen

Michael Soucie

Tim Enwall

Systems and Methods disclosed herein relate to providing a message to an application programming interface (API). The message includes a request for data from a data model, a submission of data to the data model, or both; and a host selection between: a representational state transfer (REST) host and a subscription-based application programming interface (API) host, wherein the REST host receives REST-based messages and the subscription-based API host receives messages in accordance with a standard of the subscription-based API host; wherein the request for data, the submission of data, or both are configured to create, delete, modify, or any combination thereof data related to a smart-device environment structure, a thermostat, a hazard detector, or any combination thereof stored in a data model accessible by the API.

Methods and apparatus for using smart environment devices via application program interfaces

In one embodiment, a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media stores computer instructions. The computer instructions, when executed by a processor, are configured to send one or more requests including an access token to retrieve, access, view, subscribe, or modify data elements of a data model representative of one or more smart environments. The access token is associated with at least an application programming interface (API) client or API client device and one or more scopes granted to the API client or API client device. The one or more scopes provide one or more access rights to one or more of the data elements of the data model defined by a hierarchical position of the data elements in the data model represented by a respective path to the data elements.

In one embodiments, a method for authorizing access for an application programming interface (API) client or API client device to data of one or more data models of one or more smart devices includes retrieving a number of access tokens from an authorization server, and providing, via a single connection, the number of access tokens in a request made by the API client or the API client device to the API, wherein the number of access tokens are used to verify access rights of the API client or the API client device to read data for a number of users associated with the one or more data models of the one or more smart devices.

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