Managing Services on a Network

• US 20100275124A1
• Filed: 11/30/2009
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lakshmi Arunachalam
• Original Assignee: Lakshmi Arunachalam
• Inventors: Arunachalam, Lakshmi
• Granted Patent: US 8,407,318 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/735
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/18 Delegation of network management function, e.g. customer network management [CNM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way transactional capabilities on the Web. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for enabling object routing, the method comprising the steps of creating a virtual information store containing information entries and attributes associating each of the information entries and the attributes with an object identity, and assigning a unique network address to each of the object identities. A method is also disclosed for enabling service management of the value-added network service, to perform OAM&P functions on the services network

Claims

1. A method for managing services on a web service network in order to facilitate a transaction, the method comprising:

providing a management service to a user;

accepting signals from a user input device operated by the user to control the management service; and

using the information management service to process an object identity, wherein the object identity represents a networked object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the management service includes an information management service.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the management service includes a web service network management service.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the management service includes an operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning function on the Web.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the function includes security management on the Web.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the function includes fault management on the Web.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the function includes configuration management on the Web.

8. A method for configuring the context of a service on the World Wide Web comprising:

providing a user interface that defines objects, information entries and attributes;

storing the information entries and attributes in a virtual information store;

configuring an instance of a process model;

associating the process model with an object having an object identity that includes the information entries and attributes on the World Wide Web;

assigning a unique network address to the object identity;

performing object routing of the object on the World Wide Web;

creating a web-based virtual accelerator as a web service;

creating a grid network on the World Wide Web, the grid network having a plurality of grains;

instantiating a context on the World Wide Web;

associating a grain of the grid network to the context on the World Wide Web; and

using the web-based virtual accelerator to access the context and the object on the World Wide Web.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the process model is an organizational process model.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the process model is a business process model.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the process model is context-driven.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the process model relates to a group of geographies, markets, industries, departments, organizations, enterprises, web services, classifications and types.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the grains relate to groups of geographies, markets, industries, departments, organizations, enterprises, web services, classifications and types.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the grid network includes grains of instances of a group of process elements, context, web applications, geographies, markets, industries, departments, organizations, enterprises, web services, classifications and types.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the context is distinct from content on the World Wide Web.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein the context is Business Process Automation.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein the user interface provides a common command view of web services.

18. The method of claim 8, wherein the user interface includes a control center for the grid network of context elements.

19. The method of claim 8, wherein the grid network includes open access to unified communication using object routing.

20. A distributed online service information base on the World Wide Web comprising:

a virtual information store containing a plurality of information entries and attributes, wherein the information entries and attributes are associated with a particular networked object having an object identity.

21. The distributed online service information base of claim 20, wherein each networked object has a network address.

22. The distributed online service information base of claim 20, wherein the network address is an internet address.

23. The distributed online service information base of claim 22, wherein the internet address is an IP address.

24. The distributed online service information base of claim 22, wherein the internet address is associated with the node where the object is stored.

25. The distributed online service information base of claim 20, wherein the object has a name and an object type.