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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Ehab Sobhy, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06J 3/00 (2006.01); H04Q 1/50 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08567 (2013.01); G06J 3/00 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04Q 1/50 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
An environment is described in which a cloud-implemented service system controls a plurality of target devices via a plurality of respective device-agnostic pipe mechanisms. The target devices themselves may represent 'dumb' devices, e.g., lacking local control logic, or providing reduced reliance on local control logic. Users may interact with the service system via applications running on any type of user devices.