Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: “2 BACKGROUND OF THE TECHNOLOGY” Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also o btained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “3 SUMMARY OF THE TE CHNOLOGY “Some example non-limiting embodiments provide a processing device comprising: a processor; a network interface operably connected to the processor; and a memor y operatively coupled to the processor, the memory storing (a) a first specifica tion template that specifies the processing device configuration in order to ada pt the processing device to provide specified generated data, e.g., synthetic me tric values, in accordance with a specification contained within the first speci fication template, and (b) a second specification template that defines a proces sing device configuration to facade as a virtualized synthetic device; the proce ssor being configured to generate one or more instances of generated data attrib utable to the virtualized synthetic device constructed in accordance with instru ctions provided by the first specification template, the processor being further configured to publish, via the network interface, a facade of the virtualized s ynthetic device, wherein the published facade of the virtualized synthetic devic e reports one or more instances of the generated data.