Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

William D Walker

Peter Alex Korn

Andrew J Hunt

Jianxiu Hao

Zhong Chen

Matthew John Threefoot

Richard N Burridge

Oliver Braun

Johan Wouters

Ira Stevens

William J Hayes

Stuart J Adams

The processing and management of IoT events, in a manner that provides an intuitive and user-friendly design pattern, is described, and may include determining a set of IoT events, corresponding to a set of IoT devices, wherein an IoT event for a particular IoT device corresponds to a state or change of state of the received data for the particular IoT device. User-defined triggers may be evaluated, in which each of the triggers include a conditional expression that is evaluated using one or more of the IoT events. The triggers may generate alerts, which may be routed to a target which determines the actions that may be performed.

Internet of things (IoT) event distribution

A device may receive device information and operation information relating to an Internet of Things (IoT) device type corresponding to IoT devices that are configured to perform a particular operation based on receiving a particular command message. The device information may identify IoT devices of the IoT device type, and the operation information may identify operations that the IoT devices are capable of performing. The device may generate an application programming interface (API) based on the operation information. The API may associate the operations with one or more respective instructions, and may permit a client device to control operation of the IoT devices. An instruction, of the one or more respective instructions, when received by the device, may cause the device to cause a corresponding command message to be transmitted to an IoT device of the IoT devices. The device may store or provide the API.

Internet of things communication and control system

A system and method for adding speech recognition to graphics user interface based applications for a computer system is described. The speech recognition system provides a profile generation module that enables users to create editable profiles of grammar and corresponding actions that may be used by a speech agent and in combination with an accessibility framework to drive that application based on the user's spoken commands.

System and method for adding speech recognition to GUI applications

An event aggregator allows an application program to receive notification of events generated by selected objects without registering as a listener for events with each object. The event aggregator has a registration list module that receives a registration request from the application program indicating from which object types the application program wants to receive notification of events, an object monitor that continually checks the computer system for objects and registers a listener with each object; and an event monitor that that notifies the application program if any listener receives notification of an event generated by an object type indicated by the registration request.

System and method for aggregating registration of entities for notifications of events

A system and method for referencing object instances of an application program, and invoking methods on those object instances from within a recognition grammar. A mapping is maintained between at least one string formed using characters in the character set of the recognition grammar and instances of objects in the application program. During operation of the disclosed system, when either the application program or script within a recognition grammar creates an application object instance, a reference to the object instance is added to the mapping table, together with an associated unique string. The unique string may then be used within scripting language in tags of the rule grammar, in order to refer to the object instance that has been &ldquo;registered&rdquo; by the application program in this way. A tags parser program may be used to interpret such object instance names while interpreting the scripting language contained in tags included in a recognition result object. The tags parser program calls the methods on such object instances directly, eliminating the need for logic in the application program to make such calls in response to the result tag information.

System and method for referencing object instances and invoking methods on those object instances from within a speech recognition grammar

A system for incorporating speech recognition into a computer program, including a number of speech controller modules corresponding to program components within the computer program. Each speech controller module supports a speech recognition grammar having at least one rule, where the speech recognition grammar provides an interface to operations on the corresponding program component. The rules of the speech recognition grammar associate spoken commands with data stored in the corresponding program component. A rule may include a reference to another local rule, or to a rule in a different speech recognition grammar, in which case a &ldquo;link&rdquo; to the other rule is formed. In this way, the disclosed system allows rules from the same or different grammars to be combined together, in order to build complex grammars. Each speech controller module operates to dynamically enable one or more rules it contains within a speech recognizer, in response to detecting the occurrence of an associated enabling condition. The speech controller module receives a recognition result from the speech recognizer indicating that the speech recognizer has detected one or more tokens associated with an enabled rule. In response to receipt of the recognition result, a speech controller module operates to invoke a method on data within the corresponding program component, and passes the result on to other speech controller modules that are linked to the recognition rule corresponding to the result.

System and method for interfacing speech recognition grammars to individual components of a computer program

A program loading arrangement is used in connection with a virtual machine for loading programs for processing in the virtual machine. The program loading arrangement includes a program/class loader and a dependency list. The dependency list identifies, for each program for which one or more classes are to be instantiated in the virtual machine for use during processing of the respective program, the class or classes that are to be so instanitated. In response to a request to load a program for processing in the virtual machine, the program/class loader initiates loading of the program. In addition, the program/class loader determines from the dependency list whether any classes are to be instantiated for use during processing of the program being loaded and, if so, instantiates the respective classes. The information in the dependency list as to which class or classes are to be instantiated in the virtual machine when the respective programs are loaded can be provided by an operator, thereby to permit the operator to enable classes to be instantiated in the virtual machine which might not otherwise be instantiated for use during processing of the program.

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William D Walker