Agnostic execution cluster for an agnostic execution environment

• US 8,484,661 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2010
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Walsh, Matthew J
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, VAN H
• Application Number:
  US12/783,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20110231862A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 719/315, 719/318, 719/319
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/00 Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units interface circuits for specific input/output devices G06F3/00 ; multiprogram control therefor G06F9/46; multiprocessor systems G06F15/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/505 Clust
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues

Abstract

The disclosed subject matter provides system(s) and method(s) for facilitating an execution environment in which services can be made available for use by one or more devices independently of such devices'"'"' hardware, operating systems, or run-time environments. The services can be abstracted and accessed by way of a Service Programming Interface (SPI). Execution environment devices can be members of one or more execution clusters and can interoperate by way of a logical bus, for example by contemporaneously signaling among member devices on an electronic signaling logical bus (ESLB). Signaling can be by way of event messages which can facilitate distributed computing and/or agnostic execution behavior.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising;

interfacing to a logical bus coupling the processor to a cluster of devices comprising a mobile device, wherein the cluster of devices employs distributed computing to distribute processing of a task to a plurality of devices of the cluster of devices, wherein the device is part of the cluster;

determining information related to the cluster comprising determining identification information for another device of the cluster;

receiving, via the logical bus, a communication related to the task between an operating system of the other device and a runtime executed by the other device of the cluster; and

generating an event message, for communication to the cluster via the logical bus, wherein the event message identifies the task for distributed computation by another runtime executed by the device and the runtime executed by the other device of the cluster.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the runtime and the other runtime are executed based on different runtime executables.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the generating the event message comprises identifying the task for distributed computation by the other runtime executed by the device, a second other runtime executed by the device and the runtime executed by the other device.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the other runtime and the second other runtime are based on execution of different runtime environments.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the other runtime and the runtime are based on execution of different runtime environment types.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the other runtime and the runtime are based on execution of different runtime environment types from the second other runtime.

7. The device of claim 3 wherein the determining comprises receiving information indicating that the device employs another operating system that is a different operating system than the operating system employed by the other device.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, via the logical bus, information relating to a functional capability of a device component of the other device of the cluster to facilitate allocation of processing related to the functional capability.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the determining comprises receiving information indicating that the device employs another operating system that is a different operating system than the operating system employed by the other device.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the other operating system is a consumer electronics device operating system and the operating system is a mobile device operating system.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the interfacing to the logical bus comprises interfacing to a first logical bus associated with the device, the first logical bus coupled to a second logical bus associated with the other device.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein a first device type of the device and a second device type of the other device are different types.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the first device type of the device is a mobile phone type and the second device type of the other device is not a mobile phone type device.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the second device type of the other device is a consumer electronic type device for delivery of audio or video content.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the second device type of the other device is a television type display device.

16. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

interfacing to a service programming interface to facilitate access to a service associated with the service programming interface by employing a programming interface to access the service without regard to an operating system type and a runtime environment type of the other runtime executed by the device.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the interfacing to the service programming interface comprises interfacing to an abstraction of service.

18. The device of claim 1, wherein the generating the event message comprises generating an identifier portion of the event message and a payload portion of the event message.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the generating the identifier portion comprises determining an identifier of content encapsulated in the payload portion.

20. The device of claim 18, wherein the generating the payload portion comprises encapsulating content in the payload portion.

21. The device of claim 20, wherein the generating the payload portion comprises encapsulating operable code in the payload portion.

22. The device of claim 20, wherein the generating the payload portion comprises encapsulating a nested event message in the payload portion.

23. The device of claim 20, wherein the generating the payload portion comprises encapsulating an application in the payload portion.

24. A method comprising:

interfacing, by a system comprising a processor, to a logical bus via a first device that is a member of a cluster of devices, wherein the cluster of devices, comprising a wireless device, employs distributed computing to distribute processing of a task;

communicating, by the system, with a service programming interface to facilitate access to a service associated with the service programming interface by providing a programming interface for the system to access the service that is not associated with an operating system type and a runtime environment type of the system;

reading, by the system, an identifier portion of an event message via the logical bus and, based on the identifier portion, reading the event message from the logical bus, wherein the event message comprises an identifier portion and a payload portion; and

accessing, by the system, a payload of the payload portion of the event message.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the logical bus is shared by the first device of the cluster and a second device of the cluster and wherein the first and the second device monitor the logical bus for an event message concurrently.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising executing, by the system, a first software component of the first device, wherein the first software component is configured to interact with a second software component executing on a second device that is a member of the cluster of devices comprising generation of an event message,.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein a first type of software of the first software component and a second type of software of the second software component are different.

28. The method of claim 27 wherein, the first type of the first software component is a first type of run time environment and the second type of the second software component is a second type of run time environment that is a different type than the first type of runtime environment.

29. The method of claim 24, wherein the payload of the payload portion of the event message comprises a nested event message.

30. The method of claim 24, wherein the payload of the payload portion of the event message comprises executable code.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the executable code is of a type executable on a different device of the cluster than a source device of the cluster that generated the event message carrying the executable code.

32. The method of claim 30, further comprising:

executing, by the system, the executable code with the service accessed via the service programming interface.

33. The method of claim 24, wherein the first device is a mobile device and the cluster of devices comprises a consumer electronic device other than a mobile device.

34. The method of claim 24, wherein the consumer electronic device is a television-type display device.

35. A computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

receiving, from a logical bus communicatively coupling a plurality of devices , an event message comprising an identifier portion and a payload portion, wherein the plurality of devices comprise a wireless device and are configured for operation as a distributed computing cluster;

determining content from the payload portion of the event message;

accessing a service based on the content, by way of a service programming interface, wherein the service is not associated with an operating system type executable by the processor or a runtime environment type executable by the processor; and

executing the content with the service accessed by the service programming interface to facilitate distributed computing of a task by the plurality of devices comprising the distributed computing cluster.

36. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 35, wherein the service is accessible via an addressable port.