Securing internet-of-things with smart-agent technology

Abstract

An Internet-of-things (IoT) mechanizes, computerizes, automates, instruments, includes, and connects a broadly dispersed and extensively diverse universe of unrelated “things” to the Internet, e.g., credit cards, home appliances, industrial machinery, airplanes, cars, municipal water pumps, mobile devices, rain gauges, etc. Each thing is assigned a resident local “smart agent”. Or an entity, manifesting remotely only as transaction records and reports, is assigned a virtual smart agent in a network server. These data structures follow, track, record, chart, monitor, characterize, describe, render, and otherwise provide a label and handle on independent things and entities.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An Internet-of-things (IoT) component, comprising:
 an electronic smart-agent data structure resident in a computer memory, and accessible through a communications device connectable to the Internet;   a means for associating data related to a particular thing or entity to the smart-agent data structure;   a means for collecting data and attributes descriptive of or related to said thing or entity and packing such into the smart-agent data structure;   a means for rendering a descriptive representation or behavioral analysis of the thing or entity from the data kept within the smart-agent data structure; and   a profile for storing in an array any historical data related to said particular thing or entity.   
     
     
         2 . The IoT component of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 means for operating alone while disposed within a single said particular thing or entity; and   means for communicating said profile, data and attributes with other smart-agent data structures resident in different locations.