Patent Document ID: 9367620
Application ID: 14049766

Base Claim:
1. A method for handling a query generated by a user of one of multiple local network devices, wherein the local network devices are coupled to a network, and wherein the method comprises: identifying, by one or more processors, multiple system queries to local network devices on a network, wherein the multiple system queries are autonomously issued by a computer that is coupled to the network, and wherein the multiple system queries request system states of the local network devices; intercepting, by one or more processors, multiple query statements from the local network devices to a wide area network search engine, wherein the multiple query statements are in response to the system queries; generating, by one or more processors, a natural language query from one of the multiple query statements, wherein the natural language query is a logical query that is answered by said one of the multiple query statements; receiving, by one or more processors, a query from a user to the wide area network search engine, wherein the query from the user is an unstructured query about a state of a particular device from the local network devices; and comparing, by one or more processors, the query from the user with the natural language query to determine if a match between the query from the user with the natural language query exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: querying other local network devices on the network; acquiring updated query statements from the other local network devices; and returning a most up-to-date query statement from the other local network devices.