Method and system for monitoring messages passed over a network

• US 9,288,132 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: INETCO Systems Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Inteco Systems Limited
• Inventors: Telfer, Angus Richard, Pang, Alfred Yu-Han, Childs, Martin Robert, Hunt, Christopher Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Moorthy, Aravind
• Application Number:
  US14/222,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20140223006A1
• Time in Patent Office: 722 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0659 Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/427 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A method for executing an application, comprising: receiving data associated with the application; storing the data in a data buffer in a data store; selecting one or more module instances to define a function of the application, each module instance for independently performing a respective aspect of the function, each module instance independently accessing the data buffer directly from the data store to process data contained therein to perform its aspect of the function; and, using a processor, initiating operation of the one or more module instances in accordance with a schedule defined by one or more routing rules, the one or more routing rules for routing a pointer to the data, as stored in the data buffer, between the one or more module instances to thereby perform the function without passing the data itself between the one or more module instances.

Claims

1. A method for executing an application, comprising:

receiving data associated with the application;

storing the data in a data buffer in a data store;

selecting one or more module instances to define a function of the application, each module instance for independently performing a respective aspect of the function, each module instance independently accessing the data buffer directly from the data store to process data contained therein to perform its aspect of the function; and

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using a processor, initiating operation of the one or more module instances in accordance with a schedule defined by one or more routing rules, the one or more routing rules for routing a pointer to the data, as stored in the data buffer, between the one or more module instances to thereby perform the function without passing the data itself between the one or more module instances.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the schedule is further defined by a priority of the data and a priority of each of the one or more module instances.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more routing rules act on one or more attributes of the data to define the schedule.

4. The method of claim 3 and further comprising selecting the one or more attributes and one or more operators for acting on the one or more attributes.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the one or more operators are one or more Boolean operators.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more routing rules are stored in a database.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the data includes data generated by one or more of the one or more module instances.

8. The method of claim 1 and further comprising configuring one or more respective properties of the one or more module instances.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the application is one or more of a business application and a real-time application.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein a signal for selecting the one or more module instances to define the function is received through a user interface.

11. The method of claim 1 and further comprising storing status and semantic information associated with the data in the data store.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the data is a message and wherein the data buffer is a message data buffer.

13. A system for executing an application, comprising:

a processor coupled to memory and an interface for receiving data associated with the application;

a data store for storing the data in a data buffer in the data store;

a user interface for selecting one or more module instances to define a function of the application, each module instance for independently performing a respective aspect of the function, each module instance independently accessing the data buffer directly from the data store to process data contained therein to perform its aspect of the function; and

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a scheduler for initiating operation of the one or more module instances in accordance with a schedule defined by one or more routing rules, the one or more routing rules for routing a pointer to the data, as stored in the data buffer, between the one or more module instances to thereby perform the function without passing the data itself between the one or more module instances.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the schedule is further defined by a priority of the data and a priority of each of the one or more module instances.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the one or more routing rules act on one or more attributes of the data to define the schedule.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the user interface receives a selection of the one or more attributes and one or more operators for acting on the one or more attributes.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the one or more operators are one or more Boolean operators.

18. The system of claim 13 wherein the one or more routing rules are stored in a database in the memory.

19. The system of claim 13 wherein the data includes data generated by one or more of the one or more module instances.

20. The system of claim 13 wherein the user interface receives a configuration of one or more respective properties of the one or more module instances.

21. The system of claim 13 wherein the application is one or more of a business application and a real-time application.

22. The system of claim 13 wherein status and semantic information associated with the data is stored in the data store.

23. The system of claim 13 wherein the data is a message and wherein the data buffer is a message data buffer.