Agnostic execution cluster for an agnostic execution environment

• US 8,732,727 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2013
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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:
  US13/915,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290985A1
• Time in Patent Office: 343 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 facilitates 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 a cluster of devices comprising a mobile device to join the device to the cluster, wherein the cluster of devices employs distributed computing to distribute processing of a task to devices of the cluster of devices;

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;

determining a ranking of at least a subset of devices of the cluster of devices comprising the other device, based on 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 other processing related to the functional capability; and

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

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the event message identifies the task for the facilitation of the distributed computing by the device having a first corresponding runtime and other devices having respective other corresponding runtimes.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the determining the ranking comprises receiving information indicating that the other runtime executed by the device has a higher probability of completing a portion of the task in less time than the runtime executed by the other device.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the determining the ranking comprises receiving information indicating that the device is less computationally burdened than the other device.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the determining the ranking comprises determining that the device is less likely to exit the cluster than the other device.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the determining the ranking comprises determining that the device is less likely to exit the cluster than the other device is based on a first type of the device and a second type of the other device, and a first set of previous usage patterns of the device and a second set of previous usage patterns of the other device.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the interfacing to the logical bus comprises interfacing to a first local logical bus associated with the device, the first local logical bus coupled to a second local logical bus associated with the other device.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the interfacing to the logical bus comprises interfacing to a first local physical bus associated with the device, the first local physical bus coupled to a second local physical bus associated with the other device, and the first local physical bus and the second local physical bus function conjointly as the logical bus across the cluster of devices.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein a first device type of the device and a second device type of the other device are different types.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the first device type of the device is a mobile device type and the second device type of the other device is not a mobile device type.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the second device type of the other device is an appliance.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the second device type of the other device is a wearable device type.

13. 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;

receiving a ranking of devices of the cluster of devices, including the first device, based on information relating to a functional capability of a device of the cluster to facilitate allocation of processing related to the functional capability;

reading, by the system, an identifier portion of an event message via the logical bus and, based on the identifier portion and the ranking of devices, 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.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the receiving the ranking comprises receiving information indicating that the first device has a higher probability of completing a portion of a task related to the payload portion in less time than another device of the cluster of devices.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining the ranking comprises receiving information indicating that the first device is less likely to exit the cluster of devices than another device of the cluster of devices.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the logical bus is shared by the first device of the cluster and a second device of the cluster and wherein the first device and the second device concurrently monitor the logical bus for the event message.

17. The method of claim 13, 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 of the cluster of devices comprising generation of the event message.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein a first type of software of the first software component and a second type of software of the second software component are different.

19. A non-transitory 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;

receiving, from the logical bus, a ranking of devices of the distributed computing cluster based on information relating to a functional capability of a device of the cluster to facilitate allocation of processing related to the functional capability;

determining content from the payload portion of the event message based on the ranking of devices;

accessing a service based on the content, by way of a service programming interface, wherein the service is not associated with an executable of the system; 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.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the receiving the ranking comprises receiving information indicating that a first device or the distributed computing cluster has a higher probability of completing a portion of the task in less time than another device of the distributed computing cluster.