Concurrent web based multi-task support for control management system

• US 8,566,463 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2008
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: STT WebOS, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sheng Tai Tsao
• Inventors: Tsao, Sheng Tai (Ted)
• Primary Examiner(s): Moise, Emmanuel L
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUQ, FARZANA B
• Application Number:
  US12/079,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20080177821A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,035 Days
• Field of Search: 709/229, 709/201, 709/220, 709/223, 709/217
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/541 Client-server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4843 by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5016 the resource being the memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/526 Mutual exclusion algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/18 Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols

Abstract

To improve efficiency of accessing and managing the central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine (“CCDSVM”) of the present invention, the hundreds and thousands of systems in the CCDSVM can be organized into multiple groups (service pools) with a multi-layered hierarchy. The CCDSVM includes at least a control system to control and organize a management pool that comprises a plurality of middle level control systems, and each middle control system can control a service pool that comprises a plurality of servers (computing devices). In addition, different privileged users are permitted to log into each control system at different levels for further accessing the permitted servers in each pool. Specially, the present invention including a method of web based multi-tasking support to enhance the web based manageability and operations of the multi-layered CCDSVM.

Claims

1. A multi-layered web system controlling centralized web based access, the web system comprising:

at least a first level server;

a plurality of second level servers being centrally controlled by the first level server across a communication network;

a plurality of third level servers being configured into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the groups comprises one or more of the third level servers, and is associated with and centrally controlled by one of the second level servers across the communication network; and

a web multitask support mechanism for supporting operations of the web system; and

wherein the first level server is configured to;

send via a web page information of the second level servers to an access device, allowing a user via the information being displayed on the access device to selectively submit a task for access to one or more of the second level servers; and

activate the web multitask support mechanism to process the task received from the access device in the background, the processing of the task comprising to distribute the task to the one or more of the second level servers for carrying out the task without causing to interfere the display of the information on the access device during a regular network traffic; and

wherein each of the second level servers is configured to;

send via a web page information of one or more third level servers in an associated one of the groups to an access device, allowing a user via the information being displayed on the access device to selectively submit a task for access to one or more of the third level servers in the associated one of the groups; and

activate the web multitask support mechanism to process the task received from the access device;

in the background, the processing of the task comprising to distribute the task to the one or more of the third level servers for carrying out the task without causing to block the display of the information on the access device during a regular network traffic.

2. The web system of claim 1, wherein said communication network is one of the Internet, a corporate Intranet, wide area network (“

WAN”

) or local area network (“

LAN”

), and comprises wired and wireless communication links.

3. The web system of claim 1, wherein each of the access devices is one of a wireless personal communication device, a laptop computer, a desktop computer or a server, and is operable to execute a web browser to display said information via said web page received from a corresponding server at a designated level in the web system.

4. The web system of claim 1, wherein said first level server obtains via the each of the second level servers information of one or more third level servers in the associated one of the groups, and displays via a web page the obtained information on the access device corresponding to the first level server.

5. The web system of claim 1, wherein each of the users is assigned permissions for access to one or more specific servers at one or more levels in the web system, is allowed via a corresponding access device to log in the first level or one of the second level servers only once to further submit corresponding said task.

6. The web system of claim 1, wherein each of the second level servers receives, executes and responds to a task distributed from the first level server, obtains information including internet protocol (“

IP”

) address from each of the one or more third level servers in the associated one of the groups.

7. The web system of claim 1, wherein said activation of the web multitask support mechanism further comprises:

storing information of a task before the processing of the task;

providing an immediate response to an access device from which the task is received regardless of whether the processing of the task is completed nor not; and

cleaning up the stored information of the task in response to the completion of the processing of the task;

wherein the web multitask support mechanism invokes at least a lock to protect the processing of the task.

8. The web system of the claim 1, wherein the first level server or each of the second level servers is further operable to display via a web page self information on an corresponding access device, allowing user of the corresponding access device via the displayed information to perform operations to the first level server or to the each of the second level servers.

9. The web system of the claim 1, wherein said processing of a task in the background comprises:

allowing at least a second task to be submitted via corresponding said information displayed on one of the access devices immediately following a submission of a first task without waiting for completion of the processing of the first task.

10. The web system of claim 4, further comprising:

allowing a user via the information displayed on the access device corresponding to the first level server to submit a task for access to one or more of the third level servers in the associate one of the groups.

11. The web system of claim 10, wherein the first level server further executes the task received from the access devices in background, comprising to distribute the task to the one or more of the third level servers for carrying out the task without causing to interfere the display of the information on the access device during a regular network traffic.

12. The web system of claim 11, wherein each of the third level servers in the associated one of the groups further receives, executes, and responses to the task distributed from the first level server.

13. The web system of claim 9, wherein one of the first and second tasks to be performed further comprises:

access to an application service of a video, web, database, or storage service provided by one of the third level servers in one of the groups of the web system.

14. The web system of claim 9, wherein one of the first and second tasks to be performed further comprises:

creating file system for storage device residing in one of the servers at a designated level of the web system or transferring file between two of permitted servers in the web system.

15. The web system of the claim 9, wherein one of the first and second tasks to be performed further comprises:

monitoring status of networks, storages, hardware processors, or processes and threads of one of the servers at a designated level of the web system.

16. The web system of the claim 9, wherein one of the first and second tasks to be performed further comprises:

configuring a storage controller, or partitioning a storage device in respect to the storage controller residing in one of the servers at a designated level of the web system.

17. The web system of claim 13, wherein said access to the storage service further comprises:

allocating a storage space of predetermined capacity, residing the one of the third level servers, to an access device, allowing a user via an access device to create a folder in the storage space.

18. The web system of claim 17, wherein said access to the storage service further comprises:

allowing the user via the access device to the folder for storing a file therein or retrieving a file therefrom.

19. The web system of claim 13, wherein each of the third level servers delivers the application service directly to an access device from which the task for access to the application service is received.

20. A second level server in a multi-layered web system controlling centralized web based access, the second level server comprising:

at least a hardware processor;

at least a service module comprising program instructions to be executed for receiving, executing, and responding to at least a task distributed from a first level server in the web system across a communication network; and

at least a server module comprising program instructions to be executed for configuring the second level server to centrally control a plurality of third level servers in the web system across the communication network;

wherein the second level server is configured to;

send via a web page information of the third level servers to an access device, allowing a user via the information being displayed on the access device to selectively submit a task for access to one or more of the third level servers; and

activate a web multitask support mechanism to process the task received from the access device in the background, the processing of the task comprising to distribute the task to the one or more of the third level servers for carrying out the task without causing to block the display of the information on the access device during a regular network traffic.

21. A first level server in a multi-layered web system controlling centralized web access, the first level server comprising:

at least a hardware processor; and

at least a server module comprising program instructions to be executed for configuring the first level server to centrally control operations for a plurality of second level servers across a communication network,

wherein each of the second level servers centrally controls operations for an associated group of one or more third level servers;

wherein the first level server is configured to;

send via a web page information of the second level servers to an access device, allowing a user via the information being displayed on the access device to selectively submit a task for access to one or more of the second level servers; and

activate a web multitask support mechanism to process the task received from the access device in the background, the processing of the task comprising to distribute the task to the one or more of the second level servers for carrying out the task without causing to block the display of said information on the access device during a regular network traffic.

22. The first level server of claim 21, wherein said first level server via each of the second level servers obtains information of the associated group and displays via a web page the obtained information on the access device, allowing the user access to the one or more third level servers in the associated group.