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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2016
Ptc Inc., Needham, MA (US);
John Louis Taylor, Webster, NY (US);
Timothy A. Rochte, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kiran Bhageshpur, Seattle, WA (US);
David Patrick Hart, Webster, NY (US);
PTC, Inc., Needham, MA (US);
Abstract
A method manages configurations of devices in a system that communicates information between a device and an enterprise. The method includes building a defined configuration for a device type. The defined configuration includes a set of value requirements. An actual configuration having values associated with the device is compared to the defined configurations. The actual configuration and defined configuration are stored in a database of the enterprise. The method also includes determining, in the enterprise, if the values of actual configuration match the corresponding value requirements of the defined configurations. The method runs business logic associated with the device based on a result from the step of determining if the values of the actual configuration match the corresponding values of the defined configurations. The matched configurations are stored for subsequent use.