Patent ID: 9729383
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: generating, at a first time, a first rule associated with a first user account having a first security context, wherein the first rule also has the first security context, wherein the first rule comprises instructions to generate a first command to cause a first network-connected device to perform a first action responsive to satisfaction of a first criterion, and wherein the first command is permissible to the first security context at the first time; receiving, by a processing device executing a rules engine, a notification of a first event on at least one of the first network-connected device, a second network-connected device or a third party service; determining, by the processing device at a second time, that the first event satisfies the first criterion of the first rule at the second time; determining whether the first command was permissible to the first security context at the second time; and responsive to determining that the first command was permissible to the first security context at the second time, performing the following comprising: