PRESENCE-BASED EVENT DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE

• US 20090228584A1
• Filed: 03/10/2008
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Maes, Stephane H., Sun, Wenchao
• Granted Patent: US 8,914,493 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using a presence-based network to monitor systems, devices, or agents. According to one embodiment, monitoring a system can comprise receiving a publication of one or more presence attributes from a presence network agent. The presence attributes can comprise at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information. A presence profile associated with the presence network agent can be updated based on the received presence attributes. One or more of the presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent can be provided to a listener. For example, providing presence attributes to the listener can comprise providing a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute. Additionally or alternatively, a request can be received from the listener for one or more presence attributes and the presence attribute can be provided in response to the request.

Claims

1. A monitoring system comprising:

a presence server adapted to receive one or more published presence attributes and update a presence profile based on the received presence attributes wherein the presence attributes comprise at least one attribute indicating information of than presence information.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising presence network agent communicatively coupled with the presence server, the presence network agent adapted to publish the one or more presence attributes to the presence server.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the presence network agent is adapted to receive monitored information from the network and publish the one or more presence attributes in response to receiving the monitored information.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the presence network agent is adapted to request monitored information, receive the monitored information in response to the request, and publish the one or more presence attributes in response to receiving the monitored information.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a listener communicatively coupled with the presence server and adapted to receive presence attributes from the presence server.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the listener is adapted to subscribe to the at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile and wherein the presence server provides the at least one presence attribute to the listener by providing a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the listener is adapted to request the presence attributes from the presence server and wherein the presence server provides the at least one presence attribute to the listener in response to the request.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the listener comprises a handler adapted to process the presence attributes received from the presence server.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the information other than presence information comprises event information.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the presence server is further adapted to provide an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) based on the event information.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the EDA is adapted to persist the one or more presence attributes based on one or more policies.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the EDA is adapted to expire the one or more presence attributes based on one or more policies.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the EDA is adapted to provide notification of past events to the listener based on one or more policies.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the EDA further comprises an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the EDA is implemented on the ESB.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the ESB is implemented on the EDA.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the ESB is adapted to subscribed to at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent and receive a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute from the presence server.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the ESB is adapted to publish one or more presence attributes to the presence server.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the ESB is adapted to publish the one or more presence attributes using Java Management Extensions (JMX) MBean Events.

20. The system of claim 10, wherein the EDA is adapted to provide real-time monitoring of a device associated with the presence network agent.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the presence attributes further comprise at least one attribute indicating presence information.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the EDA provides tracking of the device associated with the presence network agent based on the at least one attribute indicating presence information.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the device associated with the presence network agent comprises a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tag.

24. The system of claim 20, wherein the device associated with the presence network agent comprises a sensor and the EDA is adapted to perform process monitoring based on at least one of the presence attributes.

25. A method of monitoring a system, the method comprising:

receiving a publication of one or more presence attributes from a presence network agent, the presence attributes comprising at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information;

updating a presence profile associated with the presence network agent based on the received presence attributes; and

providing at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent to a listener.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein providing at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent to the listener comprises providing a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute.

27. The method of claim 25, further comprising receiving a request from the listener for at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent and wherein providing the at least one presence attribute to the listener is performed in response to the request.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein the information other than presence information comprises event information.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising providing an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) based on the event information.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing real-time monitoring of a device associated with the presence network agent.

31. The method of claim 29, further comprising wherein providing the EDA comprises persisting one or more of the presence attributes based on one or more policies.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein providing the EDA comprises expiring one or more of the presence attributes based on one or more policies.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing notification of past events to the listener based on one or more policies.

34. The method of claim 29, wherein the presence attributes further comprise at least one attribute indicating presence information.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing tracking of the device associated with the presence network agent based on the at least one attribute indicating presence information.

36. The method of claim 29, wherein the device associated with the presence network agent comprises a sensor and wherein providing the EDA comprises performing process monitoring based on at least one of the presence attributes.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing real-time monitoring of a process associated with the presence network agent.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein providing real-time monitoring of the process associated with the presence network agent comprises providing a notification of a change in status of the process based on one or more of the presence attributes.

39. A stateful Event Driven Architecture (EDA) comprising:

a network;

a monitored device;

a profile associated with the monitored device, the profile comprising one or more attributes associated with monitored information; and

a policy enforcement module adapted to persist one or more of the attributes based on one or more policies.

40. The EDA of claim 39, wherein the policy enforcement module is further adapted to expire one or more of the attributes based on the one or more policies.

41. The EDA of claim 39, wherein the one or more profile comprises a presence profile and the attributes comprise presence attributes.

42. The EDA of claim 41, further comprising a presence server communicatively coupled with the network and adapted to receive the one or more presence attributes via the network and update the presence profile based on the received presence attributes.

43. The EDA of claim 42, wherein the monitored device comprises a presence network agent adapted to publish the one or more presence attributes to the presence server.

44. The EDA of claim 43, wherein the presence network agent is adapted to receive monitored information from the network and publish the one or more presence attributes in response to receiving the monitored information.

45. The EDA of claim 43, wherein the presence network agent is adapted to request monitored information from the network, receive the monitored information in response to the request, and publish the one or more presence attributes in response to receiving the monitored information.

46. The EDA of claim 43, further comprising a listener communicatively coupled with the presence server and adapted to receive presence attributes from the presence server.

47. The EDA of claim 46, wherein the listener is adapted to subscribe to the at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile and wherein the presence server provides the at least one presence attribute to the listener by providing a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute.

48. The EDA of claim 46, wherein the listener is adapted to request the presence attributes from the presence server and wherein the presence server provides the at least one presence attribute to the listener in response to the request.

49. The EDA of claim 46, wherein the listener comprises a handler adapted to process the presence attributes received from the presence server.

50. The EDA of claim 39, further comprising a stateful Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).