International Business Machines Corporation

Elster Solutions, LLC

Richard Michael Rogers

Konrad Charles Lagarde

Brian Daniel Goodman

Robert T Mason

Sean Michael Scoggins

Chen Shu

Raymond H Kelley

Donato Colonna

James K Kebinger

Lisa Norma Schenkewitz

Douglas A Jones

Steven Brian Rubin

A metering device may be configured to communicate with other devices on a plurality of metering communication networks, such as an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) network. For example, a metering end device may be programmed or reconfigured via an AMI network. A metering end device may receive, via the AMI network, a program recipe comprising one or more configuration parameters. The program recipe may be specific to the end device and formatted according to a generic program table of the end device. The end device may decrypt and validate the program recipe. The end device may implement the decrypted program recipe to configure the end device with the one or more configuration parameters.

Generic and secure AMI end device configuration

A computer program capsule is created from programs that include at least one other web service program. The programs are interconnected and saved as an encapsulated program for use as an encapsulated program or a web service program. The encapsulated program is created and interconnected from a local or remote computer.

Creating web services programs from other web services programs

A control program agent at a Web server receives a browser request by way of a server side API and fulfills requests as an agent of the browser client. Program capsules are utilized by distributed integration solution (DIS) servers for retrieving, from a database gateway coupled to a plurality of database resources, requested information from multiple data bases, performing calculations, formatting, and other services on the information and reporting results to the web browser or to other locations, in a selected format, as in a display, fax, printer, and to customer installations.

WWW client server dynamic interactive system method

A World Wide Web browser makes requests to web servers on a network which receives and fulfills requests as an agent of the browser client, organizing distributed sub-agents as distributed integration solution (DIS) or intelligent decision server (IDS) servers on an intranet network supporting the web server which also has access agent servers accessible over the Internet. DIS or IDS servers execute selected capsule objects which perform programmable functions upon a received command from a web server control program agent for retrieving, from a database gateway coupled to a plurality of database resources upon a single request made from a Hypertext document, requested information from multiple data bases located at different types of databases geographically dispersed, performing calculations, formatting, and other services prior to reporting to the web browser or to other locations, in a selected format. The system is now a group software environment such as Notes for assisting work in a group software environment. Executable capsules are strung together capsule elements which are objects like DIS capsules or Java Beans and these are stored in a Notes control database as an application which can process files created within said group software environment. Upon request processing an appropriate output for the request using these strung together executable capsules and information provided during the request process and stores the final output of the process as a form in a Notes database which will contain the information produced by the execution of the strung together capsule.

Method of creating and using notes decision capsules

A World Wide Web browser makes requests to web servers on a network which receive and fulfill requests as an agent of the browser client, organizing distributed sub-agents as distributed integration solution (DIS) servers on an intranet network supporting the web server which also has an access agent servers accessible over the Internet. DIS servers execute selected capsule objects which perform programmable functions upon a received command from a web server control program agent for retrieving, from a database gateway coupled to a plurality of database resources upon a single request made from a Hypertext document, requested information from multiple data bases located at different types of databases geographically dispersed, performing calculations, formatting, and other services prior to reporting to the web browser or to other locations, in a selected format, as in a display, fax, printer, and to customer installations or to TV video subscribers, with account tracking. Intrepretive language based programs or applets are downloaded from the web server to the client and executed on the client machine for online analytical processing from a web browser. The Web client accesses a web server and downloads HTML and a Java applet(s). This enables use of multiple databases of different types using a single request from a client for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) from a web browser.

WWW client server interactive system method with Java (.TM.)

A World Wide Web browser makes requests to web servers on a network which receive and fulfill requests as an agent of the browser client, organizing distributed sub-agents as distributed integration solution (DIS) servers on an intranet network supporting the web server which also has an access agent servers accessible over the Internet. DIS servers execute selected capsule objects which perform programmable functions upon a received command from a web server control program agent for retrieving, from a database gateway coupled to a plurality of database resources upon a single request made from a Hypertext document, requested information from multiple data bases located at different types of databases geograhically dispersed, performing calculations, formatting, and other services prior to reporting to the web browser or to other locations, in a selected format, as in a display, fax, printer, and to customer installations or to TV video subscribers, with account tracking.

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Richard Michael Rogers