Global network computers

• US 20060190565A1
• Filed: 01/25/2006
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Frampton E. Ellis III
• Original Assignee: Frampton E. Ellis III
• Inventors: Ellis, Frampton E. III
• Granted Patent: US 7,908,650 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/71 to assure secure computing or processing of information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• 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 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/14 Multichannel or multilink protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

This invention generally relates to one or more computer networks having computers like personal computers or network servers with microprocessors linked by broadband 5 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 computers, comprising:

means for network services including browsing functions, as well as shared computer processing such as parallel processing, to be provided to said personal computers within said network;

at least two said personal computers;

means for at least one of said personal computers, when idled by a personal user, to be made available temporarily to provide said shared computer processing services to said network; and

means for monitoring on a net basis the provision of said services to each said personal computer or to said user.

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.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said monitoring means includes a meter device to measure the flow of computing power between said personal computers and said network.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said monitoring means includes a means by which said personal user of said personal computer is provided with a prospective estimate of cost for said network to execute an operation requested by said user prior to execution of said operation by said network.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said system has a control means by which to permit and to deny access to said personal computers by said network for shared computer processing.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein access to said personal computers by said network is limited to those times when said personal computers are idle.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein said personal computers having at least one microprocessor and communicating with said network through a connection means having a speed of data transmission chat is at least greater than a peak data-processing speed of said microprocessor.

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

means for network services including browsing functions, as well as shared computer processing such as parallel processing, to be provided to said personal computers within said network;

at least two said personal computers;

means for at least one of said personal computers, when idled by a personal user, to be made available temporarily to provide said shared computer processing services to said network; and

means for maintaining a standard cost basis for the provision of said services to each said personal computer or to said user.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein said system is scalar in that said system imposes no limit to the number of said personal computers.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein said system includes at least 1,024 said personal computers.

17. The system of claim 14, 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.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein said system includes at least 256 said personal computers.

19. The system of claim 14, 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.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the standard cost is fixed.

21. The system of claim 14, wherein the fixed standard cost is zero.

22. The system of claim 14, wherein said means for maintaining a standard cost basis includes the use of making available a standard number of said personal computers for shared processing by said personal computers.

23. The system of claim 14, wherein said network is connected to the World Wide Web and its successors.

24. The system of claim 14, wherein said personal user can override said means for maintaining a standard cost basis so that said personal user can obtain additional network services.

25. The system of claim 14, wherein said system has a control means by which to permit and to deny access to said personal computers by said network for shared computer processing.

26. The system of claim 14, wherein said personal computers having at least one microprocessor and communicating with said network through a connection means having a speed of data transmission that is at least greater than a peak data processing speed of said microprocessor.

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

at least two said personal computers;

means for at least one said personal computer, when directed by its personal user, to function temporarily as a master personal computer to initiate and control the execution of a computer processing operation shared with at least one other said personal computer in said network;

means for at least one other said personal computer, when idled by its personal user, to be made available to function temporarily as at least one slave personal computer to participate in the execution of a shared computer processing operation controlled by said master personal computer; and

means for said personal computers to alternate as directed between functioning as a master and functioning as a slave in said shared computer processing operations.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein said system is scalar in that said system imposes no limit to the number of said personal computers.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein said system includes at least 256 said personal computers.

30. The system of claim 27, 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.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein said system includes at least 256 said personal computers.

32. The system of claim 27, 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.

33. The system of claim 27, wherein said system includes at least 256 said personal computers.

34. The system of claim 27, 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.

35. The system of claim 27, wherein said shared computer processing is parallel processing.

36. The system of claim 27, wherein said network is connected to the World Wide Web and its successors.

37. The system on claim 27, wherein a means for network services, including browsing and broad cast functions, as well as shared computer processing such as parallel processing, are provided to said personal computers within said network.

38. The system of claim 27, wherein said network includes at least one network server that participates in said shared computer processing.

39. The system of claim 27, wherein said personal computers include a transponder means so that a master personal computer can determine the closest available slave personal computers.

40. The system of claim 27, wherein said closest available slave personal computer is compatible with said master personal computer to execute said shared computer processing operation.

41. The system of claim 27, wherein said personal computers having at least one microprocessor and communicating with said network through a connection means having a speed of data transmission that is at least greater than a peak data processing speed of said microprocessor.

42. A system architecture for computers, including personal computers, to function within a network of computers, comprising:

a computer with at least two microprocessors and having a connection means with a network of computers;

said architecture for said computers including a firewall means for personal computers to limit access by said network to only a portion of the hardware, software, firmware, and other components of said personal computers;

said firewall means will not permit access by said network to at least a one said microprocessor having a means to function as a master microprocessor to initiate and control the execution of a computer processing operation shared with said at least one other microprocessor having a means to function as a slave microprocessor; and

said firewall means permitting access by said network to said slave microprocessor.

43. The system architecture of claim 42, wherein said computer is a personal computer.

44. The system architecture of claim 43, wherein said personal computer is a microchip.

45. The system architecture of claim 42, wherein said computer have a control means by which to permit and to deny access to said computer by the network for shared computer processing.

46. The system of claim 43, wherein said system is scalar in that said system imposes no limit to the number of said personal computers.

47. The system of claim 46, wherein said system includes at least 256 said personal computers.

48. The system of claim 43, 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.

49. The system of claim 43, 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.

50. The system of claim 49, wherein said system includes at least 256 said personal computers.

51. The system of claim 43, wherein said personal computers having at least one microprocessor and communicating with said network through a connection means having a speed of data transmission that is at least greater than a peak data processing speed of said microprocessor.