Pattern-driven communication architecture

• US 7,864,037 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2008
• Issued: 01/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Miller, Landon C. G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Previl; Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/139,723
• Publication Number:
  US 20090309712A1
• Time in Patent Office: 932 Days
• Field of Search: 340/501, 340/517, 340/521, 340/522, 340/523, 340/601, 340/539.26, 340/539.28, 340/541, 340/506, 340/539.1, 340/531, 340/524
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19667 Details realated to data compression, encryption or encoding, e.g. resolution modes for reducing data volume to lower transmission bandwidth or memory requirements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 31/00 Predictive alarm systems characterised by extrapolation or other computation using updated historic data

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for communicating pattern data is presented. A graphical event pattern is sent to an interconnected array of intelligent sensors. When intelligent sensors in the interconnected array determine that an event has occurred, the graphical event pattern is sent to a user. Thereafter, any data that supports the graphical event pattern is sent to the user. Thus, this supporting data is transmitted according to the graphical event pattern, rather than a header address.

Claims

1. A method of routing emergent information, the method comprising:

presenting a plurality of pattern components to a user, wherein pattern components from the plurality of pattern components are utilized by the user to create a customized graphical event pattern on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and wherein the customized graphical event pattern represents emergent information that describes an event;

receiving the customized graphical event pattern from the user;

transmitting data representing the customized graphical event pattern to an interlinked array of intelligent sensors at an array location, wherein the interlinked array of intelligent sensors exchange a set of event data inputs among intelligent sensors within the interlinked array of intelligent sensors, and wherein event data inputs are generated using observations made by the intelligent sensors in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors;

monitoring, by a monitoring logic, event data inputs to determine if the set of event data inputs meets a predetermined threshold requirement for one or more of the pattern components, wherein multiple servers within the monitoring logic vote to determine if the predetermined threshold requirement has been met;

in response to the multiple servers voting that the set of event data inputs meets the predetermined threshold for one or more of the pattern components, creating a data pattern match message;

matching the data pattern match message with a designated recipient identified in a lookup table;

transmitting the data pattern match message to the designated recipient; and

streaming future event data inputs from the interlinked array of intelligent sensors to the designated recipient, wherein the future event data inputs are specified by the data pattern match message.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating data patterns that each describe a different customized graphical event pattern;

ranking multiple data patterns according to each data pattern'"'"'s historic accuracy in creating a known emergent, information;

applying newly received data to a highest-ranked data pattern to revise the known emergent information; and

performing a response to address revised emergent information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the known emergent information is initially created by:

programming each intelligent sensor in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors with a trigger rule, wherein the trigger rule describes a local condition that must be met for the intelligent sensor to trigger an event signal;

programming each intelligent sensor in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors with a relationship rule, wherein the relationship rule describes a hierarchy of communication control among intelligent sensors in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors;

activating the interlinked array of intelligent sensors; and

in response to conditions at the array location causing a predetermined percentage of intelligent sensors, from the interlinked array of intelligent sensors, to trigger event signals, generating emergent information about the array location, wherein the emergent information describes conditions at the array location, and wherein the emergent information exists only when the predetermined percentage of intelligent sensors trigger event signals.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the array location is on a barrier, and wherein the interlinked array of intelligent sensors comprises a weather sensor, a thermal sensor, a video camera, a radar system, and an audio sensor.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the barrier is a physical coastline.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the barrier is a virtual barrier described in software to describe an operational boundary of the interlinked array of intelligent sensors.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the response to address the revised emergent information is performed by a local controller at the array location using a consolidation of trigger rules from the interlinked array of intelligent sensors.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the relationship rule defines how each intelligent sensor, in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors, communicates with other intelligent sensors in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors.

9. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

updating, from a remote controller, the trigger rule and the relationship rule in each intelligent sensor in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein each intelligent sensor in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors comprises multiple different trigger rules to be used in a creation of different emergent information.

11. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor;

a memory coupled to the data bus; and

a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for routing emergent information by performing the steps of;

presenting a plurality of pattern components to a user, wherein pattern components from the plurality of pattern components are utilized by the user to create a customized graphical event pattern on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and wherein the customized graphical event pattern represents emergent information that describes an event,

receiving the customized graphical event pattern from the user;

transmitting data representing the customized graphical event pattern to an interlinked array of intelligent sensors at an array location, wherein the interlinked array of intelligent sensors exchange a set of event data inputs among intelligent sensors within the interlinked array of intelligent sensors, and wherein event data inputs are generated using observations made by the intelligent sensors in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors;

monitoring, by a monitoring logic, event data inputs to determine if the set of event data inputs meets a predetermined threshold requirement for one or more of the pattern components, wherein multiple servers within the monitoring logic vote to determine if the predetermined threshold requirement has been met;

in response to the multiple servers voting that the set of event data inputs meets the predetermined threshold for one or more of the pattern components, creating a data pattern match message;

matching the data pattern match message with a designated recipient identified in a lookup table;

transmitting the data pattern match message to the designated recipient; and

streaming future event data inputs from the interlinked array of intelligent sensors to the designated recipient, wherein the future event data inputs are specified by the data pattern match message.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the interlinked array of intelligent sensors comprises a weather sensor, a thermal sensor, a video camera, a radar system, and an audio sensor.

13. A computer-readable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for routing emergent information by performing the steps of:

presenting a plurality of pattern components to a user, wherein pattern components from the plurality of pattern components are utilized by the user to create a customized graphical event pattern on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and wherein the customized graphical event pattern represents emergent information that describes an event,

receiving the customized graphical event pattern from the user;

transmitting data representing the customized graphical event pattern to an interlinked array of intelligent sensors at an array location, wherein the interlinked array of intelligent sensors exchange a set of event data inputs among intelligent sensors within the interlinked array of intelligent sensors, and wherein event data inputs are generated using observations made by the intelligent sensors in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors;

monitoring, by a monitoring logic, event data inputs to determine if the set of event data inputs meets a predetermined threshold requirement for one or more of the pattern components, wherein multiple servers within the monitoring logic vote to determine if the predetermined threshold requirement has been met;

in response to the multiple servers voting that the set of event data inputs meets the predetermined threshold for one or more of the pattern components, creating a data pattern match message;

matching the data pattern match message with a designated recipient identified in a lookup table;

transmitting the data pattern match message to the designated recipient; and

streaming future event data inputs from the interlinked array of intelligent sensors to the designated recipient, wherein the future event data inputs are specified by the data pattern match message.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the instructions are further configured for:

generating data patterns that each describe a different customized graphical event pattern;

ranking multiple data patterns according to each data pattern'"'"'s historic accuracy in creating a known emergent information;

applying newly received data to a highest-ranked data pattern to revise the known emergent information; and

performing a response to address revised emergent information.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the known emergent information is initially created by:

programming each intelligent sensor in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors with a trigger rule, wherein the trigger rule describes a local condition that must be met for the intelligent sensor to trigger an event signal;

programming each intelligent sensor in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors with a relationship rule, wherein the relationship rule describes a hierarchy of communication control among intelligent sensors in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors;

activating the interlinked array of intelligent sensors to enable communication among the intelligent sensors; and

in response to conditions at, the array location causing a predetermined percentage of intelligent sensors, from the interlinked array of intelligent sensors, to trigger event signals, generating emergent information about the array location, wherein the emergent information describes conditions at the array location, and wherein the emergent information exists only when the predetermined percentage of intelligent sensors trigger event signals.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the array location is on a water coastline, and wherein the interlinked array of intelligent sensors comprises a weather sensor, a thermal sensor, a video camera, a radar system, and an audio sensor.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the relationship rule defines how each intelligent sensor, in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors, communicates with other intelligent sensors in the interlinked array of intelligent sensors.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the response to address the revised emergent information is performed by a local controller at the array location using a consolidation of trigger rules from the interlinked array of intelligent sensors.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the computer-usable medium is a component of a remote server, and wherein the computer executable instructions are deployed to a supervisory computer from the remote server.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the computer executable instructions are provided by a service provider to a customer on an on-demand basis.