Patent ID: 11870847
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. An apparatus comprising at least one processing device, wherein the at least one processing device comprises a processor coupled to a memory configured to:
in a distributed file system configured as a content-addressable, peer-to-peer hypermedia distribution utilizing a distributed hash table with a block exchange and namespace methodology, the distributed file system comprising a plurality of distributed file system nodes and a plurality of gateway nodes, wherein each gateway node has a corresponding file system node configured to allow each gateway node to access a given data flow that is stored within the distributed file system, wherein each of the plurality of gateway nodes is operatively coupled to a plurality of sensors that provide sensor data to the corresponding gateway node;
obtain a data flow at a given gateway node from a decentralized data storage system upon which a plurality of data flows is stored, wherein the data flow is assigned a content address which is utilized by the given gateway node via its corresponding distributed file system node to retrieve the data flow from a respective node upon which it is stored;
execute the data flow at the given gateway node, wherein the data flow comprises one or more transformation operations executed on sensor data obtained by the given gateway node from the corresponding plurality of sensors; and
perform a data flow valuation spanning operation at the given gateway node based on the executed data flow to generate a data flow valuation result, the data flow valuation result characterizing a valuation of the data flow;
wherein the data flow value spanning operation comprises utilizing multiple value contributions that span changes in valuation resulting from the one or more transformation operations of the data flow to generate the data flow valuation result;
wherein a first value contribution of the multiple values is associated with a first data valuation of first sensor data of a first sensor type of the plurality of sensors, a second value contribution of the multiple values is associated with a second data valuation of second sensor data of a second sensor type of the plurality of sensors different from the first sensor type and a third value contribution of the multiple values is associated with a third data valuation of third sensor data of a third sensor type of the plurality of sensors different from the first sensor type and the second sensor type; and
wherein the data flow value spanning operation further comprises reducing an output value of the data flow of the given gateway node by the sum of the first value contribution, the second value contribution and the third value contribution to generate the data flow valuation result.