Sharing of portable initialized objects between computing platforms

• US 9,354,863 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2015
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lection, David B., Lyle, Ruthie D., Masselle, Eric L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHAW, ROBERT A
• Application Number:
  US14/977,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20160103674A1
• Time in Patent Office: 161 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/222, 709/246
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• 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 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A sub-process is performed on a first computing platform to create a portable initialized object. The portable initialized object is communicated to a second computing platform. The second computing platform uses the portable initialized object to replace performing the sub-process.

Claims

1. A method for sharing portable initialized objects by a first virtual machine, the method comprising:

generating a Document Object Model (DOM) object by reading and parsing a TCP/IP configuration represented in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format during a boot-up process;

placing the DOM object in a memory block of the first virtual machine;

assigning a first ID to the DOM object, the first ID indicating that the DOM object is associated with the TCP/IP configuration;

assigning a first time out value to the DOM object, the first time out value indicating when the first virtual machine will discard the DOM object;

determining that a second virtual machine is authorized to receive the DOM based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) location of the second virtual machine;

communicating the DOM object to the second virtual machine over a Bluetooth connection, thereby enabling the second virtual machine to bypass reading and parsing the TCP/IP configuration;

determining that the first time out value has been reached;

discarding the DOM object in response to the determining the first time out value has been reached;

receiving an update notification for an update;

downloading the update;

creating an unpacked update package by unpacking the update;

assigning a second ID to the unpacked update package, the second ID indicating that the unpacked update package is associated with the unpacked update;

assigning a second time out value to the unpacked update package, the second time out value indicating when the first virtual machine will discard the unpacked update package;

communicating the unpacked update package to the second virtual machine over the Bluetooth connection;

determining that the second time out value has been reached; and

discarding the unpacked update package in response to the determining the first time out value has been reached.