Network operating system and method for managing a changing entity in a computer system

• US 8,209,286 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2011
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Skai, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Skai, Inc.
• Inventors: Henderson, Charles E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MERILYN P
• Application Number:
  US13/020,531
• Publication Number:
  US 20110161283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 707/603, 707/608, 707/690, 707/628, 707/781
• US Class Current: 707/628
• 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

A system and method for a network operating system including 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 and method generally 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. A computer implemented method of information, comprising the steps:

managing an entity in a computer system, wherein a change to the entity is an addition or negation of a relationship that relates to the entity, wherein the relationship is an immutable entity by containing immutable data and the relationship records a timestamp that indicates a time of the addition or negation;

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.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, 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.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising the step of governing the subscribed consumer by a network operating system, wherein the subscribed consumer is a software component.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, further comprising activating the software component to process the change.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 4, further comprising deactivating the subscribed component after processing the change.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 4, 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.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the relationship is the change and the entity is changed because of the negation or addition of the relationship with the entity.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the entity is changed by the addition of a relationship entity and associating the relationship entity with the entity.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the entity is immutable.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the relationship is a second entity that changes a state of the entity, and the relationship includes a unit of change and time.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of pushing the change as information to the subscribed consumer includes associating the relationship with the subscribed consumer.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the entity is defined by the relationship which connects the entity with other entities.

3. The computer implemented method of 2, 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.

14. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium as computer executable instructions for implementing a method of information in a computer environment, the instructions when read and executed by a computer performing the steps of:

managing an entity in a computer system, wherein a change to the entity is an addition or negation of a relationship that relates to the entity, wherein the relationship is an immutable entity by containing immutable data and the relationship records a timestamp that indicates a time of the addition or negation;

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.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the entity is immutable.

16. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the relationship is a second entity that changes a state of the entity, and the relationship includes a unit of change and time.

18. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the step of pushing the change as information to the subscribed consumer includes associating the relationship with the subscribed consumer.

19. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the computer executable instructions further includes the step of granting access to the entity for the subscribed consumer to receive the change.

17. The computer program product of 14, wherein the computer executable instructions further includes 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.

20. A system configured with a computer processor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for providing information, the system includes software components stored in the non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the system configured to read and execute the software components to perform the following steps:

managing an entity in a computer system, wherein a change to the entity is an addition or negation of a relationship that relates to the entity, wherein the relationship is an immutable entity by containing immutable data and the relationship records a timestamp that indicates a time of the addition or negation;

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.