RESILIENT COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN CLIENTS COMPRISING A CLOUD

• US 20080082670A1
• Filed: 09/28/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Glasgow, Dane A., MacLaurin, Matthew B., Meijer, Henricus Johannes Maria, Ozzie, Raymond E., Flake, Gary W., Raghavan, Kartik N., Bolosky, William J., Brumme, Christopher W., Blinn, Arnold N., Gounares, Alexander G., Glasser, Daniel S., Snyder, Ira L., Bergstraesser, Thomas F., Mishra, Debi P., Thekkath, Chandramohan A., Treadwell, David R., Maggs, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/536,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082670A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

A system and method that facilitates and effectuates communications between disparate clients that reside in a network topology (e.g., cloud). The system and method provides a component that receives one or more prospective end points, a set of desired communication criteria/characteristics, and desired content extant on one of the clients that reside on network topology. Additionally, the system and method provides a component that establishes communications pathways to one or more prospective end points or to subsequently identified end points to facilitate transfer of desired content from the end point to a requesting client.

Claims

1. A machine implemented system that effectuates communication between disparate clients situated on a network topology, comprising:

a receiving component that receives a request from a client for desired content, possible locations of the content, and desired communication parameters; and

a connection component that locates the desired content, identifies one or more communication modalities that satisfy or nearly satisfy the desired communication parameters, and establishes with at least one of the communications modalities a connection endpoint associated with the desired content and the client.

2. The system of claim 1, the receiving component utilizes attribute(s) associated with the desired content to search the network topology to locate the desired content.

3. The system of claim 2, the receiving component employs at least one of linear discriminant analysis, bootstrap aggregation, and density boosting.

4. The system of claim 2, the receiving component employs at least one of expectation maximization and entropy maximization to locate a correspondence between the desired content attribute and desired content contained within an item located on one of the disparate clients.

5. The system of claim 2, the receiving component utilizes the desired content attribute to weave a chain of related content encapsulated within an item dispersed over the network topology.

6. The system of claim 5, the receiving component employs the chain of related content to locate desired content contained within the item located on one of the disparate clients.

7. The system of claim 1, the receiving component includes an authentication component that retrieves biometric data from a biometric reader coupled to the receiving component.

8. The system of claim 7, the authentication component effectuates authentication hopping between communication modalities and one or more connection endpoints associated with the desired content and the client.

9. The system of claim 1, the connection component includes a maintenance component that ascertains a degree of degradation and augmentation in the one or more communication modalities.

10. The system of claim 9, the maintenance component, based at least in part on the degree of degradation and augmentation, automatically informs the receiving component to locate desired content commensurate with the degree of degradation and augmentation.

11. The system of claim 1, the connection component retrieves an establishment logic from a data repository.

12. The system of claim 11, the establishment logic utilized together with the communication characteristic to establish communications with the connection endpoint.

13. The system of claim 1, the connection component obtains a set of pre-established optimal communication characteristics from a data repository.

14. The system of claim 13, the set of pre-established optimal communication characteristics utilized by the connection component where the retrieved communication characteristic is presently unachievable.

15. The system of claim 1, the connection component further including an upgrade facility that dynamically and seamlessly transfers communications to a second of the disparate clients where the second of the disparate clients indicates communication characteristics that more closely correspond to the desired communication parameters.

16. A computer implemented method that facilitates resilient communication between disparate endpoints situated on a network topology, comprising:

receiving a request for interaction with a putative end node, desired content, and communication requirements;

ascertaining a set of probable end nodes that may contain data that corresponds to the desired content;

determining if a subset of the probable end nodes are capable of satisfying the communication requirements; and

establishing a communications pathway to at least one of the end nodes of the subset that satisfies the desired content and communications requirements.

17. The method of claim 16, further includes constantly monitoring the established communications pathway to ensure that performance of the communications pathway does not degrade below previously established limits.

18. The method of claim 16, further includes constantly monitoring the disparate endpoints to ascertain an end node that has communication characteristics superior to the communication requirements and dynamically establishing a communications pathway with the end node.

19. The method of claim 16, further includes utilizing the subset of the probable end nodes to automatically establish a second communications pathway to a second end node in the subset where the communications pathway to the at least one of the end nodes of the subset fails, and automatically ensuring that data communications resume at a point of failure.

20. A system that facilitates and effectuates resilient communications between a first client and a second client disposed on a network topology, comprising:

means for accepting a desired content request and an expectational communication parameter; and

means for establishing a communications channel between the first client and the second client that satisfies or partially satisfied the expectational communication parameter and where the second client contains information that corresponds to the desired content request.