NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A CHANGING ENTITY IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM

• US 20110161283A1
• Filed: 02/03/2011
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Skai, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Skai, Inc.
• Inventors: HENDERSON, Charles E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,209,286 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/608
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2145 Inheriting rights or properties, e.g., propagation of permissions or restrictions within a hierarchy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes

Abstract

The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared file management, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, serial and parallel work flow, top-down and bottom-up collaboration, and information lifecycle management.

Claims

1-64. -64. (canceled)

65. A computer implemented method of information, comprising the steps:

managing a changing entity in a computer system, wherein a change is an addition or negation of a relationship that relates to the changing entity;

subscribing a consumer of information related to the entity; and

pushing the change as information to the subscribed consumer when the change to the entity occurs.

66. The computer implemented method of claim 65, further including bidirectional

information-driven computing, comprising the steps of:

a) processing the change as information by the subscribed consumer; and

b) producing another change by changing the entity or another entity in response to the processing; and

c) pushing the another change to other subscribed consumers of the another change so that the other subscribed consumers can process the another change by repeating step a and step b,

wherein the subscribed consumer receives the pushed information and also pushes another information so that a bi-directional information-driven dynamic exists among the subscribed consumer and the other subscribed consumers.

68. The computer implemented method of claim 65, further comprising the step of governing the subscribed consumer by a network operating system, wherein the subscribed consumer is a software component.

69. The computer implemented method of claim 68, further comprising activating the software component to process the change.

70. The computer implemented method of claim 68, further comprising deactivating the subscribed component after processing the change.

71. The computer implemented method of claim 68, further comprising preventing the change by throwing an exception by the software component, resulting in the prevention of the change and dependent changes so that information consistency is maintained among a decentralized network of software components that are processing the change, wherein the decentralized network includes the component.

67. The computer implemented method of 66, further comprising the step of creating a dynamic view, wherein the dynamic view includes the receiving of pushed information and the pushing of information by the subscribed consumer.

72-93. -93. (canceled)