Providing secure data and policy exchange between domains in a multi-domain grid by use of a service ecosystem facilitating uses such as supply-chain integration with RIFD tagged items and barcodes

• US 20050193222A1
• Filed: 03/01/2005
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: William Sprott Greene
• Original Assignee: William Sprott Greene
• Inventors: Greene, William Sprott
• Application Number:
  US11/069,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20050193222A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

A system, method, and software implemented system of services provides enhanced security and management to multiple domain grids and allows intercommunications between the different grid domains providing for secure data exchange, policy exchange, and agent exchange between grids or grid domains. Via the exemplary example, utilizing the unique characteristics of the Service Grid and mobile agents, this is extended to provide enhanced security and management to supply chains: providing data exchange, policy exchange, and agent exchange between supply chain nodes and supply chain partners—facilitating enhanced methods of supply chain automation when using barcodes and Radio Frequency Identity (RFID) tags to identify and track goods through supply chains and consumer uses. Agents transport data and policy between supply-chain partners over an extranet, migrating across corporate boundaries and security domains, locating near where items are identified to provide local control, environmentally responsive policy, and ongoing permanent data capture & history.

Claims

1. Claim system, method, and software implemented system of services for Gateways in a distributed computer grid for provision of information and agent transfer between domains in distributed computing

providing enhanced security and management to multiple domain grids and allowing intercommunications between the different grid domains

providing for data exchange, policy exchange, and agent exchange between grids or grid domains

providing the registration of gateways with enterprise lookups, the discover and binding of remote gateways, the discovery of gateway pairs by local domain services, the secure, filtered transfer if policy (Event, Condition Action statements) and data from one domain to another, the securing of agent code through use of a local, authenticated code server, and the assembling of completed transfers of agents from policy/data kernels and the local agent code

providing simple gateway to gateway transfers, as well as associations of multiple gateways, and interconnection with non service grid domains via heritage protocols.

2. Claim system, method, and software implemented system of services for providing enhanced security and management to supply chains:

providing data exchange, policy exchange, and agent exchange between supply chain nodes and supply chain partners using policy agents—

specifically when technical environments are heterogeneous, different policy and security domains are present, and trust models are not identical by filtering and adding information via STAs of the respective transmitting and receiving domains,

facilitating enhanced methods of supply chain automation when using barcodes and RFID tags to identify and track goods through supply chains and consumer uses.

3. Claim the system, method, and software implemented system of services for a Security Domain, as a multidimensional demarcation boundary in a community of Microservices and heritage applications

providing the multi-tiered security design, technology and processes associated with secure and reliable service grids

providing trust models associated with use of gateways to arbitrate exchange of policy and data,

providing automatic enforcement of TPAs via STA services.