Supporting application effectiveness in a network environment

• US 8,520,503 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2010
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Purpura, William J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thai
• Application Number:
  US12/881,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20110004686A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 709/205, 709/222, 370/252, 370/216
• US Class Current: 370/216
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/16 in which the time allocation to individual channels within a transmission cycle is variable, e.g. to accommodate varying complexity of signals, to vary number of channels transmitted H04J3/17, H04J3/24 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/22 in which the sources have different rates or codes simultaneous speech and digital data or video transmission H04M11/06; see provisional also H04J3/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76

Abstract

A system for performing a mission/control application by means of an integrated application in a network-centric environment using one or more capabilities attributed to the application, with each capability being assigned one or more priorities for the application. The system may have at least one node configured to identify a change in the one or more capabilities, and to negotiate in the network-centric environment to resolve the change. The node may further be configured to negotiate until the application is provided with one or more resources resolving the change in accordance with one or more applicable priorities.

Claims

1. A system for performing a mission and control operation utilizing an integrated application in a network-centric environment requiring an availability of one or more predefined capabilities attributed to the integrated application, each said capability assigned one or more priorities for the integrated application, the system comprising at least one node comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

identify a change in the one or more predefined capabilities;

determine a probability of effectiveness for the integrated application; and

negotiate in the network-centric environment to resolve the change; and

the at least one processor further configured to negotiate until the integrated application is provided with one or more resources resolving the change in accordance with one or more applicable priorities of the one or more priorities and the determined probability of effectiveness;

wherein the one or more predefined capabilities are hierarchically ordered, and the at least one processor is configured to negotiate as to each of the one or more predefined capabilities in the hierarchical order; and

wherein the integrated application includes a plurality of applications, and each one of said plurality of applications is attributed with one or more of the predefined capabilities;

wherein the at least one processor is configured to negotiate to resolve the change in accordance with one or more performance parameters applicable to the integrated application.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more capabilities includes one or more functionality levels, and the at least one processor is configured to negotiate to resolve the change in accordance with one or more applicable functionality levels.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to modify one or more priorities to resolve the change.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more capabilities include at least interoperability.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more resources comprise at least one of the following:

storage, processing, bandwidth and an input/output port.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to modify one or more functionality levels to resolve the change.

7. A system for performing a mission and control operation by means of integrated applications in a network-centric environment, the system comprising:

a plurality of nodes having a plurality of applications;

the plurality of nodes and plurality of applications being configured with reference to a framework, the framework predefining an ordered relationship hierarchy of a plurality of network capabilities providable by the plurality of applications and plurality of nodes in the network-centric environment, the ordered relationship hierarchy having interoperability as a base capability upon which all other predefined network capabilities depend;

at least one processor embedded within at least one node of the plurality of nodes configured to;

identify a change in the predefined network capabilities attributed to a given application;

determine a probability of effectiveness for the given application;

negotiate in the network-centric environment to resolve the change;

the at least one processor further configured to negotiate until the given application is provided with one or more resources resolving the change in accordance with one or more priorities and the determined probability of effectiveness of the given application;

wherein each one of said plurality of applications is attributed with one or more of the predefined network capabilities, and each of the predefined network capabilities being attributed to the one given application assigned the one or more priorities and being qualified by one or more performance parameters; and

wherein the at least one processor is configured to negotiate to resolve the change in accordance with one or more performance parameters applicable to the given application.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein each said plurality of application is attributed with one or more of the predefined capabilities, and each of the capabilities being attributed to the one given application having one or more assigned priorities.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more capabilities attributed to the given application includes one or more functionality levels.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is configured to negotiate to resolve the change in accordance with one or more functionality levels applicable to the given application.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is configured to modify one or more priorities of the given application to resolve the change.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is configured to negotiate, as to each one of the one or more capabilities, in an order determined by the hierarchy.