checks compatibility between the operation and available protocols for the operation to determine a set of compatible protocols next the system checks compatibility between the set of compatible protocols and available instruments for the operation to determine a set of compatible instruments if the set of compatible instruments includes at least one instrument the system selects a compatible instrument and a corresponding compatible protocol and uses this instrument and protocol to perform the operation in a variation on the above embodiment the act of selecting the compatible protocol and the compatible instrument entails presenting the set of compatible protocols and the set of compatible instruments to a user and allowing the user to select the compatible protocol and the compatible instrument for the operation application_number US 10660198 A description the following description is presented to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the invention and is provided in the context of a particular application and its requirements various modifications to the disclosed embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art and the general principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention thus the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features disclosed herein fig1 is a block diagram illustrating a centralized processing system 100 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention in the embodiment illustrated in fig1 centralized processing system.