Resource command messages and methods

• US 20070083662A1
• Filed: 10/06/2005
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rateze Remote Mgmt. L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Zetera Corporation
• Inventors: Ludwig, Thomas, Frank, Charles, Adams, Mark, Witchey, Nicholas
• Granted Patent: US 9,270,532 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals

Abstract

Resource command messages comprise commands and command urgency or importance information that is interpreted by a resource device and is coupled with information relating to the resource device to determine when to process the command within the resource command message. Resource devices comprising a plurality of resource nodes provide increased performance, responsiveness, and load balancing by multiple resource nodes processing the same resource command message in parallel.

Claims

1. A resource command message, at least a portion of which resides in a memory, and is addressed to a resource device having a resource node, the resource command message comprising:

(a) a command; and

(b) a command parameter including at least one of a command urgency and a command importance, wherein determination of when to process the command is a function of the command parameter and information relating to the resource node.

2. The resource command message of claim 1, wherein the resource device has a second resource node, and each of the resource nodes are able to process the command message.

3. The resource command message of claim 1, wherein the command urgency includes a preferred provider.

4. The resource command message of claim 1, wherein the command urgency indicates a relative time to process the command.

5. The resource command message of claim 1, wherein the command urgency indicates an absolute time to process the command.

6. The resource command message of claim 1, wherein the command importance indicates quality of service information.

7. The resource command message of claim 1, wherein the command importance indicates a relative priority to process the command.

8. The resource command message of claim 1, wherein the command importance indicates an absolute priority to process the command.

9. The resource command message of claim 1 wherein the command parameter further comprises a command identifier relating the command to at least one of a previous command and a subsequent command.

10. A method of processing a resource command message, at least a portion of which resides in a memory, and is addressed to a resource device having a resource node,

wherein the resource command message comprises a command and a command parameter including at least one of a command urgency and a command importance, the method comprising:

(a) determining when to process the command is a function of the command parameter and on information relating to the resource node; and

(b) reordering a command queue based upon when the command is to be processed.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the command queue position is an absolute command queue position.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the command queue position is relative to another command in another command queue position.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of determining when the command is processed includes delaying the processing of the command.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of delaying includes never processing the command.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising responding to the resource command message with a resource command response message.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the resource command response message includes an indication of an ability of the resource node to process the command.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising reserving at least a portion of a requested allocation.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the resource command message response includes an acknowledgement that the command has been processed.

19. The method of claim 10, further comprising interpreting the resource command message as an instruction to suspend processing a previous command.

20. The method of claim 10, wherein the resource device comprises a plurality of resource nodes.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprises processing the resource command message more than once substantially in parallel.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the resource command message further comprises selecting a preferred provider from among the plurality of resource nodes.

23. A computer readable memory storing instructions to execute the steps of claim 10 on a processing unit.

24. A method of accessing a resource device having a resource node responsible for a resource, the method comprising:

(a) creating a resource command message including a command and a command parameter;

wherein the command parameter comprises at least one of a command urgency and a command importance, and

wherein a determination of when to process the command is a function of the command parameter and information relating to the resource node; and

(b) sending the command message to the resource device.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the resource device comprises a plurality of resource nodes.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the act of sending includes multicasting the resource command message to the plurality of resource nodes.

27. The method of claim 25, further comprises selecting a preferred provider from among the plurality of resource nodes.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the step of selecting a preferred provider includes selecting a first responder from among the plurality of resource nodes.

29. The method of claim 24, further comprising at least one of a consumer of the resource and the resource node employing a slow start.

30. The method of claim 24, wherein the command parameter includes a command group identifier.

31. A computer readable memory storing instructions to execute the steps of claim 24 on a processing unit.