System for Intelligent Context-Based Adjustments of Coordination and Communication Between Multiple Mobile Hosts Engaging in Services

• US 20090037928A1
• Filed: 07/30/2008
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telcordia Technologies Incorporated (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: Telcordia Technologies Incorporated (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Falchuk, Benjamin W., Loeb, Shoshana K.
• Granted Patent: US 8,255,505 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/108
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• 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 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A system and method for intelligent, context-sensitive enhancement of transactions among a plurality of mobile hosts, each having a local coordinator, engaging in services comprising an actual coordinator and an intelligence coordinator that determines context regarding the mobile hosts, and leverages the context to enhance the transactions between the local coordinators and the actual coordinator. The context can be leveraged by reducing the number and/or the amount of data of the transactions. The context can comprise a physical location, temporal data, and a network load near and at a network location of the mobile host. The system can also have an application operating on the services, in which the intelligence coordinator can improve performance of the application. The intelligence coordinator can receive and parse a meta-expression piggy-backed on a transaction message to enhance transactions.

Claims

1. A system for intelligent, context-sensitive enhancement of transactions among a plurality of mobile hosts engaging in services, each of the mobile hosts having a local coordinator, comprising:

an actual coordinator; and

an intelligence coordinator, wherein the intelligent coordinator determines context regarding one or more of me plurality of mobile hosts and leverages the context to enhance the transactions between one or more of the local coordinators and the actual coordinator.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the context is leveraged by at least one of reducing a number of transactions, and by reducing an amount of data in the transactions.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the context comprises at least one of a physical location, temporal data, and a network load near and at a network location of the mobile host.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an application operating on the service, wherein the intelligence coordinator improves performance of the application.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the intelligence coordinator receives and parses a meta-expression piggy-backed on a transaction message, uses the parsed meta-expression to form thresholds, and based on the thresholds, the intelligence coordinator eliminates one or more mobile hosts engaging in the services to reduce a number of transactions.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein, to leverage the context, the intelligence coordinator performs at least one of intercepting and reading a protocol of the local coordinator, mimicking the actual coordinator from a point of view of the mobile hosts engaging in the services, manipulating and passing information back to the actual coordinator, interworking with internal knowledge bases and with external systems, and adding, removing, and modifying the number of mobile hosts engaging in the services.

7. A method for intelligent, context-sensitive enhancement of transactions among a plurality of mobile hosts engaging in services, each of the mobile hosts having a local coordinator, said method comprising steps of:

determining context regarding one or more of the plurality of mobile hosts; and

leveraging the context to enhance the transactions between one or more of the local coordinators and an actual coordinator.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of leveraging is performed by at least one of reducing a number of transactions, and by reducing an amount of data in the transactions.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the context comprises at least one of a physical location, temporal data, and a network load near and at a network location of the mobile host.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of leveraging improves performance of an application operating on the services.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of leveraging further comprises:

receiving and parsing a meta-expression piggy-backed on a transaction message;

using the parsed meta-expression to form thresholds; and

based on the thresholds, eliminating one or more mobile hosts engaging in the services to reduce a number of transactions.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein leveraging is performed by at least one of:

intercepting and reading a protocol of a local coordinator;

mimicking an actual coordinator from a point of view of the mobile hosts engaging in the services;

manipulating and passing information back to the actual coordinator;

interworking with internal knowledge bases and with external systems; and

adding, removing, and modifying the number of mobile hosts engaging in the services.

14. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the step of leveraging is performed by at least one of reducing a number of transactions, and by reducing an amount of data in the transactions.

15. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the context comprises at least one of a physical location, temporal data, and a network load near and at a network location of the mobile host.

16. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the step of leveraging improves performance of an application operating on the services.

17. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the step of leveraging further comprises:

receiving and parsing a meta-expression piggy-backed on a transaction message;

using the parsed meta-expression to form thresholds; and

based on the thresholds, eliminating one or more mobile hosts engaging in the services to reduce a number of transactions.

18. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein leveraging is performed by at least one of:

intercepting and reading a protocol of a local coordinator;

mimicking an actual coordinator from a point of view of the mobile hosts engaging in the services;

manipulating and passing information back to the actual coordinator;

interworking with internal knowledge bases and with external systems; and

adding, removing, and modifying the number of mobile hosts engaging in the services.

13. A computer readable medium having computer readable program code for operating on a computer for intelligent, context-sensitive enhancement of transactions among a plurality of mobile hosts engaging in services, each of the mobile hosts having a local coordinator, the program comprising steps of:

determining context regarding one or more of the plurality of mobile hosts; and

leveraging the context to enhance the transactions between one or more of the local coordinators and an actual coordinator.