Methods and systems that provide cloud-based physical infrastructure
US12210325B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 3, 2021 |
| Grant date | Jan 28, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 22, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B13/0265
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The current document is directed to methods and systems that migrate traditional control systems used to manage and administer physical infrastructure, including retail establishments, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, offices, hospitals and medical clinics, and other physical infrastructure, to cloud-computing facilities. The approach to controlling physical infrastructure disclosed in the current document is not simply an extension of traditional control systems to access and use cloud-computing facilities, but instead represents the migration of physical infrastructure into cloud-computing facilities, resulting in elimination of the need for local computers and computer-implemented control systems from the physical infrastructure and a complete abstraction and virtualization of the hardware systems within the physical infrastructure. In the currently disclosed approach, complex management logic, including policy-based and rules-based management logic as well as programmed management logic, is fully migrated from physical infrastructure to cloud-computing facilities, providing greater reliability, independence from physical infrastructure systems and components, and a central…
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