Patent ID: 8165928

Claim:
A system in a supply chain network, the system comprising: one or more site data appliances comprising one or more types of data source equipment, the one or more site data appliances using a Universal Data Application Protocol (UDAP) to collect specification information from the one or more types of data source equipment, the specification information comprising event information that describes events generated by the one or more types of data source equipment; one or more site servers coupled to one or more site data appliances that receive the specification information from the one or more site data appliances according to the UDAP and generate a document describing the event information of the one or more types of data source equipment; and a data center coupled to the one or more site servers that receives the document from the one or more site servers according to the UDAP and automatically generates a mapping table based on the received document that maps each event of the one or more types of data source equipment as described in the event information to a corresponding event handler that executes in response to an event generated by the one or more types of data source equipment.