Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The typical product or service in the modern economy touches upon, inhabits, or interrelates with numerous disparate locations, devices, and/ or entities that pertain to the product or service. Each of these different loca tions, devices, and entities may inhabit its own compartmentalized ecosystem that is distinct from-and effectively walled off from-any of the other compartmenta lized ecosystems.