Message accumulation for communication processes using a common protocol

• US 20030023737A1
• Filed: 06/18/2001
• Published: 01/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Johnson, Peter E., Erickson, Ryan B.
• Application Number:
  US09/883,615
• Publication Number:
  US 20030023737A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a number of messages from at least two different system elements that are located in two different devices. The system elements are associated with a same process, and the number of messages have a common protocol. The method also includes storing the number of messages from the at least two different system elements. Additionally, the method comprises retrieving the number of messages associated with the same process upon request for a status inquiry of the same process.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a number of messages from at least two different system elements that are located in two different devices, wherein the system elements are associated with a same process and wherein the number of messages have a common protocol;

storing the number of messages from the at least two different system elements; and

retrieving the number of messages associated with the same process upon request for a status inquiry of the same process.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the same process includes an installation of an operating system onto one of the two different devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the common protocol includes the HyperText Transfer Protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of messages are based on a message format wherein the message format includes a process identification and an information code.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the process identification includes an Ethernet hardware address for one of the two different devices.

6. A method comprising:

receiving a number of messages from different system elements that are associated with different communication processes, wherein the different system elements are located on server machines and client machines, wherein the number of messages are based on the HyperText Transfer protocol and have a process identification that includes an Ethernet hardware address for the client machine;

storing the number of messages from the at least two different system elements; and

retrieving the number of messages associated with a communication process of the different communication processes upon request for a status inquiry of the communication process.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the communication process of the different communication processes includes a process for installing an operating system onto one of the client machines.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the client machines include a management client machine, wherein the number of messages received from the different system elements located on the client machines are transmitted through the management client machine.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the client machines are part of a data center for a number of Internet web host providers.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a local execution unit communicatively coupled to a remote execution unit, wherein the remote execution unit is located on a remote device that is coupled to the apparatus and wherein the local execution unit and the remote execution unit are to execute as part of a same process; and

a message accumulator unit communicatively coupled to the local execution unit and the remote execution unit, wherein the message accumulator unit is to receive messages from the local execution unit and the remote execution unit using a common protocol.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the same process includes an installation of an operating system onto the remote device.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the common protocol includes the HyperText Transfer Protocol.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the number of messages are based on a message format wherein the message format includes a process identification and an information code.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the process identification includes an Ethernet hardware address for one of the two different devices.

15. A system comprising:

a client machine that includes at least one system element; and

a server machine that includes at least one system element and a message accumulator unit, wherein the message accumulator unit is to receive and store messages from the at least one system elements on the client machine and the server machine during an installation of an application onto the client machine, wherein the messages are based on a common protocol and using a same message format, the same message format to include a process identification that includes an Ethernet hardware address of the client machine.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the installation of the application includes an installation of an operating system onto the client machine.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the common protocol includes the HyperText Transfer Protocol.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the server machine further comprises a file server, wherein one of the at least system elements on the client machine is to download files from the file server during the installation of the application.

19. A machine-readable medium that provides instructions, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving a number of messages from at least two different system elements that are located in two different devices, wherein the system elements are associated with a same process and wherein the number of messages have a common protocol;

storing the number of messages from the at least two different system elements in memory; and

retrieving the number of messages associated with the same process upon request for a status inquiry of the same process.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the same process includes an installation of an operating system onto one of the two different devices.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the common protocol includes the HyperText Transfer Protocol.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the number of messages are based on a message format wherein the message format includes a process identification and an information code.

23. The machine-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the process identification includes an Ethernet hardware address for one of the two different devices.

24. A machine-readable medium that provides instructions, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving a number of messages from different system elements that are associated with different communication processes, wherein the different system elements are located on server machines and client machines, wherein the number of messages are based on the HyperText Transfer protocol and have a process identification that includes an Ethernet hardware address for the client machine;

storing the number of messages from the at least two different system elements; and

retrieving the number of messages associated with a communication process of the different communication processes upon request for a status inquiry of the communication process.

25. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the communication process of the different communication processes includes a process for installing an operating system onto one of the client machines.

26. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the client machines include a management client machine, wherein the number of messages received from the different system elements located on the client machines are transmitted through the management client machine.

27. The machine-readable medium of claim 26, wherein the client machines are part of a data center for a number of Internet web host providers.