GLOBAL NETWORK COMPUTERS

• US 20010013049A1
• Filed: 05/27/1998
• Published: 08/09/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Frampton Erroll Iii Ellis
• Original Assignee: Frampton Erroll Iii Ellis
• Inventors: ELLIS, FRAMPTON ERROLL III
• Granted Patent: US 7,634,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/509 Offload
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/02 for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0209 Architectural arrangements, e.g. perimeter networks or demilitarized zones
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

This invention generally relates to one or more computer networks having computers like personal computers or network servers with microprocessors linked by broadband transmission means and having hardware, software, firmware, and other means such that at least one parallel processing operation occurs that involve at least two computers in the network. More particularly, this invention relates to one or more large networks composed of smaller networks and large numbers of computers connected, like the Internet, wherein more than one separate parallel processing operation involving more than one different set of computers occurs simultaneously and wherein ongoing processing linkages can be established between virtually any microprocessors of separate computers connected to the network. Still more particularly, this invention relates to business arrangements enabling the shared used of network microprocessors for parallel and other processing, wherein personal computer owners provide microprocessor processing power to a network, preferably for parallel processing, in exchange for network linkage to other personal and other computers supplied by network providers, including linkage to other microprocessors for parallel or other processing; the basis of the exchange between owners and providers being whatever terms to which the parties agree, subject to governing laws, regulations, or rules, including payment from either party to the other based on periodic measurement of net use or provision of processing power.

Claims

1. A system for a network of computers, including personal compouters, comprising:

at least three personal computers;

one said personal computer functioning as a master in a parallel processing or multi-processing operation involving at least two other said personal computers functioning as slaves to said master;

hardware or software or firmware means for said master personal computer to subdivide said operation into two parts and to send said parts to said slaves for processing by said slaves;

hardware or software or firmware means for said at least two slave personal computers to process said operation and send results back to said master when the operation is completed.

2. The system of

claim 1

, wherein said system is scalar in that said system imposes no limit to the number of said personal computers.

3. The system of

claim 2

, wherein said system includes at least 1024 said personal computers.

4. The system of

claim 1

, wherein said system is scalar in that said system imposes no limit to the number of said personal computers participating in a single shared computer processing operation.

5. The system of

claim 4

, wherein said system includes at least 256 said personal computers.

6. The system of

claim 1

, wherein said network is connected to the Internet and its equivalents and successors, so that said personal computers include at least a million personal computers.

7. The system of

claim 1

, wherein said network is connected to the World Wide Web and its successors.

8. The system of

claim 1

, wherein said network includes at least one network server that participates in said shared computer processing.