TRIGGERING COMMANDS ON A TARGET DEVICE IN RESPONSE TO BROADCASTED EVENT NOTIFICATIONS

摘要

Mechanisms to trigger commands on target devices when source devices broadcast certain notifications to thereby automate common, routine, or otherwise related activities among heterogeneous devices are provided. For example, when a source device broadcasts a notification that arrives at a control device, a trigger that links the notification to a command on the target device may be defined and stored at the control device, which may then automatically invoke the command on the target device when the source device broadcasts the notification again in the future. In other use cases, the trigger and the linked command may be pushed to the broadcasting source device, which may then invoke the command on the target device when broadcasting the notification in the future, or a listener may be configured on the target device such that the target device may invoke the command in response to locally detecting the notification linked thereto.

主权项

1. A method for triggering commands based on event notifications, comprising:
identifying, at a control device, an event notification supported on a first device; identifying, at the control device, a command supported on a second device; defining, at the control device, a trigger that links the event notification supported on the first device to the command supported on the second device, wherein the defined trigger causes the second device to execute the identified command in response to the first device broadcasting the identified event notification.