Google Inc.

Michael Soucie

Yoky Matsuoka

Mark Rajan Malhotra

Jesse William Boettcher

Evan Jarman Fisher

Christopher Anthony Boross

Prashant Papiahgari Reddy

Samuel W Kortz

Igor Karp

Mark Andrew McBride

Todd Hester

James P Lyons

Lev Stesin

Leon Tan

Carles Pi-Sunyer

David Horton

Andrew Urman

Alexander Dubman

Gregory J Hu

Amanda Surya

Aubrey Thelen

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

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Michael Soucie