Regressive transport message delivery system and method

• US 20040059819A1
• Filed: 09/19/2002
• Published: 03/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hardcastle, Michael J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,046,471 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for communicating a message comprising hierarchical information with respect to a plurality of message transport mechanisms, and a plurality of transport managers adapted to communicate with the message transport mechanisms for transmission of a message to a particular destination via any one of the message transport mechanisms according to the hierarchical information.

Claims

1. A system for communicating a message, said system comprising:

hierarchical information with respect to a plurality of message transport mechanisms; and

a plurality of transport managers adapted to communicate with said message transport mechanisms for transmission of a message to a particular destination via any one of said message transport mechanisms according to said hierarchical information.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a process manager in communication with said plurality of transport managers and said hierarchical information, wherein said process manager provides said message to said transport managers for transmission according to said hierarchical information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein each transport manager of said plurality of transport managers is associated with a message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of transport managers comprises a transport manager associated with a message transport mechanism which is not yet active with respect to site infrastructure implementing said plurality of message transport mechanisms.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said transport managers comprise configurable software modules.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein a plurality of said configurable software modules may be selected for deployment with respect to particular site infrastructure to correspond to said message transport mechanisms as provided by said site infrastructure.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein one or more of said configurable software modules may be added and removed with respect to particular site infrastructure as corresponding ones of said message transport mechanisms are made available and unavailable at said site infrastructure.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

timeout information establishing a timeout with respect to a subsequent attempt to utilize a message transport mechanism after a corresponding transport manager detects a failure to communicate said message by said message transport mechanism.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein a timeout of said timeout information associated with a particular message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms is increased in response to a corresponding transport manager detecting a failure to communicate said message by said message transport mechanism.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein a timeout of said timeout information associated with a particular message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms is decreased in response to a corresponding transport manager detecting success in communicating said message by said message transport mechanism.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

timeout information establishing a timeout with respect to a subsequent iteration of said plurality of transport managers attempting transmission of said message according to said hierarchical information.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of transport mechanisms comprise a plurality of protocols selected from the group consisting of HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, and IPSEC.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of transport mechanisms comprise a plurality of systems selected from the group consisting of a proxy server, a socks server, and a SMTP server.

14. A method for providing regressive transport delivery of a message, said method comprising:

establishing a hierarchy of message transport mechanisms; and

providing said message to said message transport mechanisms for transmission to a same destination according to said hierarchy, wherein said providing said message to said message transport mechanisms for transmission comprises;

determining a suitability, with respect to transmission of said message, of one of said message transport mechanisms at a time of transmission of said message; and

selecting a next message transport mechanism of said hierarchy when a particular message transport mechanism is determined to be currently unsuitable with respect to transmission of said message.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said establishing a hierarchy of message transport mechanisms is with respect to a particular site infrastructure to implement said method.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

deploying a process manager adapted to receive said message from a message source and to control transmission of said message according to said hierarchy; and

deploying at least one transport manager adapted to communicate with said process manager to receive said message and to communicate with said message transport mechanisms for transmission of said message to said destination.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said at least one transport manager comprises a plurality of message transport managers, one or more of which being specifically adapted for use with a corresponding message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

deploying a particular one of said plurality of message transport managers after a corresponding particular message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms is brought online; and

updating said hierarchy of message transport mechanisms to include reference to said particular message transport mechanism.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

deploying a particular one of said plurality of message transport managers before a corresponding particular message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms is brought online.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein said determining the suitability with respect to transmission of said message comprises:

monitoring, by said at least one transport manager, of an attribute associated with a corresponding message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms; and

reporting a status with respect to said corresponding message transport mechanism to said process manager.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein said attribute associated with said corresponding message transport mechanism is indicative of the operational status of said corresponding message transport mechanism.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein said attribute associated with said corresponding message transport mechanism is not directly related to the operational status of said corresponding message transport mechanism.

23. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

establishing a timeout value associated with at least one message transport mechanism of said plurality of message transport mechanisms.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

enlarging said timeout value in response to repeated determinations that said at least one message transport mechanism is unsuitable with respect to transmission of said message.

25. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

reducing said timeout value in response to a determination that said at least one message transport mechanism is suitable with respect to transmission of said message.

26. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for providing regressive transport delivery of a message, said computer program product comprising:

hierarchical information with respect to a plurality of transport mechanisms;

a process manager adapted to receive said message from a message source and to control transmission of said message according to said hierarchical information; and

a plurality of transport managers adapted to communicate with said process manager to receive said message and to communicate with said message transport mechanisms for transmission of said message to said particular destination, wherein said transport managers determine a suitability of said ones of said message transport mechanisms for transmission of said message at a time of transmission of said message.