Covia Labs, Inc.

Dartdevices Interop Corporation

Diva Systems Corporation

Dartdevices Corporation

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Xerox Corporation

Sedna Patent Services, LLC

Daniel Illowsky

Bruce Gordon Bernstein

Richard Mirabella

Richard Tiberi

Michael Wenocur

Wolfgang Pieb

Raymond Sidney

Donald F Gordon

Philip A Thomas

Christopher Goode

Mark D Conover

Brooks Cole

Dan S Bloomberg

Robert Eugene Weltman

Ramond Sidney

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. A social synchronization interoperability method, such as a Dart Social Synchronization method provides an efficient and easy to administrate method for synchronizing specific sets of data and/or operations across any number of devices and protocols without the need for every device to contact a master device, or for any device to act as a master. Social synchronization of devices and content provides an advantageous alternative to mastered synchronization techniques.

System method and model for social synchronization interoperability among intermittently connected interoperating devices

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. Interoperability device, such as a DartDevice, provides a highly interoperable device by virtue of its running a compliant player such as a DartPlayer containing an engine such as a DartEngine and at least one communications protocol for connecting to other devices.

Method and device for interoperability in heterogeneous device environment

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. A recruitment interoperability method and model provide an alternative to the conventional client-server and peer-to-peer device interoperability models. Recruitment is used by a software application package to forms teams of devices based on their capabilities and content and then intelligently spread portions of itself to the teams of devices which then work together to carry out the intended purpose of the application package.

Method and system for device recruitment interoperability and assembling unified interoperating device constellation

A method, computer program product, and system for segmenting a software application program into a set of separately executable images. The method including segmenting program binary images of the application program into sub-execution units to be distributed to run in each device of a team as part of a single event-driven runtime process with a single main program linear contiguous code address space and a single main program linear contiguous data address space. The program sub-execution units containing executable code, and data; and each sub-execution unit containing one linear contiguous address space subset segment of the main program code, and one linear contiguous address space subset segment of the main program data; and running a unification engine on each said device of said team of devices to synchronize and serialize events as needed across the formed team of devices that drive said single event-driven runtime process.

Method system and data structure for content renditioning adaptation and interoperability segmentation model

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected devices. An interoperability source or DartSource method is provided for specifying program renditions and code content and data needed for packaged interoperability application. The interoperability source extends languages constructs commonly used to specify single executable program targeted to specific device, into language and format which can also specify procedures necessary for intelligent recruitment of teams of devices and alternative renditions of the program and/or content to be used on different device platforms so that there is suitable rendition to send to run on each recruited device to carry out that device's portion of the application.

Method and system for specifying device interoperability source specifying renditions data and code for interoperable device team

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. Creationism provides a method used by applications or Darts to dynamically generate applications or Darts highly customized for a particular target device and/or communications session and/or purpose. Instructions in the instruction set exist for programmatic generation of Darts from parts of the running Dart itself and any information that can be collected or computed by the running Dart.

Method and system for customized programmatic dynamic creation of interoperability content

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. A linear tasking method, model, and system provides alternative to conventional pre-emptive and cooperative threading models used on devices so that multiple operations can be specified and run as if their actions were being executed simultaneously. LinearTasking ensures simple, reliable, flexible and extensibe way for processing units to coordinate their activities in very deterministic and easily tested manner.

Method and system for linear tasking among a plurality of processing units

Device interoperability format and method for assembling self-contained executable device interoperability software application package conforming to an interoperability format that is completely self-contained and sufficient to carry out an intended purpose of the application on a plurality of connected or intermittently connected devices, the executable device interoperability software application package when executed allowing the plurality of devices to interoperate with each other. Method of forming a linearly contiguous binary encoded part images, and packaging the formed part images together into an executable device interoperability software application package. Computer program product for execution on a computer, information appliance, or other device. Data structure for self-contained executable device interoperability software application package.

Device interoperability format rule set and method for assembling interoperability application package

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. Virtual pointers such as Dart VirtualPointers provide structure and method for providing a simple and efficient way to access and use of one or more independent data address spaces in a single program. Virtual pointers used by software programs can adapt their use of main memory and storage devices to run efficiently on devices with differing sizes and speeds of a fast but small main memory and larger but slower storage.

Method and system for configuring and using virtual pointers to access one or more independent address spaces

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. Social security interoperability model and method, such as Dart Social Security Interoperability, provide particularly method for forming webs of security between teams of intermittently connected devices. Foundation for social security is use of social synchronization to spread unique identifiers along with allowed access rights which travel transitively from device to device. Devices which have never communicated will find that they are part of team which are allowed to interoperate with certain access rights without need for further gathering permissions.

System method and model for social security interoperability among intermittently connected interoperating devices

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. An interoperability security model, method, and system, such as a Dart Security model, method and system provide an infrastructure for protecting the integrity of a device and its content from viral, other malicious, or accidental damage.

System method and model for maintaining device integrity and security among intermittently connected interoperating devices

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. Interoperability application driven error recovery system, method, and model. System and method keeps track of shared state and provides mechanism for communications errors to be relayed to an application and for application to relay recovery information directly to communications processing units. Thus applications running across devices can seamlessly recover from intermittent complete losses of communications between cooperating devices and recovery of shared state of devices when connection is restored even where previously lost device has itself lost all its application state.

System and method for interoperability application driven error management and recovery among intermittently coupled interoperable electronic devices

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

System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. Application driven power management. Applications built using linear tasking and/or vertical layering as embodied at least partially in n interoperability framework, keep track of their exact response time needs so that efficient power management techniques can extend the lifetime of batteries, limit amount of energy consumed, or limit amount of heat generated on devices.

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