Spime™ host system, process, object, self-determination apparatus, and host device

• US 10,503,615 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2017
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BaseN Corporation
• Original Assignee: BaseN Corporation
• Inventors: Hurri, Pasi Markus, Bunn, Erik Jackson, Niemi, Kaj Johannes
• Primary Examiner(s): Maskulinski, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/421,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20170139788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/002 Remote reading of utility meters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1612 where the redundant component is persistent storage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1666 where the redundant component is memory or memory area
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/203 using migration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0654 using network fault recovery ring fault isolation or reconfiguration in loop networks without recovery actions by a network management system H04L12/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading

Abstract

A method including executing a portion of a service which is part of at least one service provided by a system including a distributed computing platform; determining object capability parameters required to perform the executing; storing information about at least one target host device; generating an announcement message reporting presence of a service type and the object capability parameters; receiving information from other announcement messages; evaluating current host device capability parameters with respect to the object capability parameters; determining when the current host device capability parameters meet a criterion; initiating a migration request message from the object for migration of the object, the object including software code and processing instructions and service function instructions, the migration to a target object host device, when the module capability parameters meet a criterion; and managing the migration of the object to the target host device.

Claims

1. A Spime™

self-determination apparatus comprising;

a Spime™

object including computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to;

execute a portion of a service which is part of at least one service provided by a system including a distributed computing platform,

determine its own Spime™

object capability parameters, and

store information about at least one target Spime™

host device;

Spime™

announcement circuitry configured to;

generate an announcement message reporting presence of a Spime™

service type and the Spime™

object capability parameters;

Spime™

host evaluator circuitry configured to;

receive information from other Spime™

announcement messages,

evaluate current host device capability parameters with respect to the Spime™

object capability parameters,

determine when the current host device capability parameters meet a criterion, and

initiate a migration request message from the Spime™

object, for migration of the Spime™

object, the object including software code and processing instructions and service function instructions, the migration to a target Spime™

object host device, when potential target host device capability parameters meet a criterion; and

Spime™

migration circuitry configured to manage the migration of the Spime™

object to the target Spime™

host device.

2. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the current capability parameters include physical current capability parameters including any one of;

processing speed, memory, SRAM, processing performance, instructions per cycle, floating-point operations per potential transfer host, computing capacity, computing load maximum per requested process, internal storage capacity, number of CPUs cache memory, different level cache memory including second level cache, main memory, hard drive capacity, memory bandwidth, input/output bandwidth, communications bandwidth, communications throughput, memory controller parameters, or remote associated storage capacity, or any combination including one or more of the physical current capability parameters.

3. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Spime™

object includes instructions of an artificial intelligence procedure configured to generate new processing functionality and instructions, which are configured to require an update to its current capability parameters.

4. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Spime™

object includes instructions configured to monitor and update its current capability parameters.

5. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Spime™

object includes instructions configured to monitor and update its memory requirements.

6. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Spime™

object includes instructions configured to monitor and update its processing performance requirements.

7. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the current capability parameters include logical current capability parameters including any one of;

data security type, security level, security cost limit, legal jurisdiction, privacy selection, advertiser selection, economic requirement, financial requirement, energy efficiency, energy cost, energy source, energy use, operation cost, relative trust, geographic location, ownership, communications cost limit, or availability, or a logical capability parameter associated with a particular service capability, or any combination including one or more of the logical current capability parameters.

8. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Spime™

host evaluator circuitry receives a Spime™

announcement message from an available agent Spime™

host device.

9. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Spime™

host evaluator circuitry receives a Spime™

announcement message from a Spime™

production apparatus,

wherein the Spime™

host evaluator circuitry determines, when no available target host device exists, to generate a new resource request message including instructions to produce a 3-dimensional model in accordance with a design specification.

12. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 1, wherein the current capability parameters includes a memory parameter and the potential target host device capability parameters includes a memory parameter.

13. The Spime™

self-determination apparatus of claim 12, wherein the current capability parameters includes a memory parameter and the potential target host device capability parameters includes a memory parameter.

10. A method comprising:

executing a portion of a service which is part of at least one service provided by a system including a distributed computing platform;

determining object capability parameters required to perform the executing;

storing information about at least one target host device;

generating an announcement message reporting presence of a service type and the object capability parameters;

receiving information from other announcement messages;

evaluating current host device capability parameters with respect to the object capability parameters;

determining when the current host device capability parameters meet a criterion;

initiating a migration request message from the object, for migration of the object, the object including software code and processing instructions and service function instructions, the migration to a target object host device, when potential target host device capability parameters meet a criterion;

managing the migration of the object to the target host device;

receiving an announcement message from a production apparatus; and

determining when no available target host device exists, to generate a new resource request message including instructions to produce a 3-dimensional model in accordance with a design specification.

11. A Spime™

self-determination apparatus comprising;

a Spime™

object including

instructions to execute a portion of a service which is part of at least one service provided by a system including a distributed computing platform,

instructions to determine its own Spime™

object capability parameters, and

instructions to store information about at least one target Spime™

host device;

a Spime™

announcement module to generate an announcement message reporting presence of a Spime™

service type and the Spime™

object capability parameters;

a Spime™

host evaluator module;

to receive information from other Spime™

announcement messages,

to evaluate current host device capability parameters with respect to the Spime™

object capability parameters,

to determine when the current host device capability parameters meet a criterion, and

to initiate a migration request message from the Spime™

object, for migration of the Spime™

object, the object including software code and processing instructions and service function instructions, the migration to a target Spime™

object host device, when potential target host device capability parameters meet a criterion; and

a Spime™

migration module to manage the migration of the Spime™

object to the target Spime™

host device.