Abstract: A visual flow-based programming platform enables entities to build automations for smart home systems. Flows link contact closures to adapters of devices in an entity's smart home system. Nodes provide logic and other functions that are interconnected to build the flows in a flow editor that executes in the cloud. The flows are exported, for example, as JSON files and run by a separate flow interpreter that executes at an entity's local hub. Automations can be shared between entities by sharing flows, without exposing private information about each entity's devices.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for implementing an architecture for a smart building includes receiving, by a hub of the smart building, speech input from a smart speaker. The speech input describes asynchronous events associated with smart devices in the smart building. The hub is connected to a cloud Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP) router located in a cloud. The asynchronous events are converted to a trigger, a condition, or an action to be performed by at least one smart device. An automated flow is generated for controlling at least one adapter in the smart building from at least one of the trigger, the condition, or the action. The at least one adapter operates the at least one smart device. The at least one smart device corresponds to at least one node in the automated flow.

Abstract: A computer system of a hub determines that a smart device has been installed in proximity to the hub. A first remote procedure call (RPC) is sent from the hub to an adapter of the smart device using a first microservice to install the adapter. The first RPC is sent over a hub Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP) router of the hub. A second RPC is sent from the hub to the adapter using a second microservice to determine that the adapter is functional. An automated flow is accessed for controlling the smart device. The automated flow comprises a node corresponding to the smart device. A third RPC is sent from the hub via the adapter to the smart device using a third microservice. The third RPC references the node. The smart device is operated in accordance with the automated flow using the third RPC.

Abstract: An online collaborative meeting is established, utilizing at least one meeting server, where the meeting includes a plurality of meeting endpoints that communicate with each other via the meeting server. The meeting server establishes a plurality of electronic work spaces that are commonly assigned to each meeting endpoint, where each work space for each meeting endpoint provides different content and each work space that is common to each meeting endpoint provides the same content for real-time display. During the online collaborative meeting, the meeting server facilitates modification to content at any of the work spaces by any meeting endpoint, where modification to content at a work space by one meeting endpoint results in a real-time distribution and display at all other meeting endpoints of the modification to the content at the work space.