Transmitting aggregated information arising from appnet information

• US 9,479,535 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2010
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Lord, Robert W., Cohen, Alexander J., Malamud, Mark A., Jung, Edward K. Y., Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Levien, Royce A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Viet
• Assistant Examiner(s): BELCHER, HERMAN A
• Application Number:
  US12/807,908
• Publication Number:
  US 20110060809A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,232 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/50 Monitoring users, programs or devices to maintain the integrity of platforms, e.g. of processors, firmware or operating systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227

Abstract

A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for signaling a first application relating with a first core and with a second core, and for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first application relating with the first core and with the second core, transmitting at least a portion of the information aggregated in response to the data received after signaling the first application relating with the first core and with the second core, or signaling via a third core a partial service configuration change at least in the first core in response to data received after signaling the first application relating with the first core and with the second core.

Claims

1. A network subsystem comprising:

circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core;

circuitry for associating a dissemination policy with at least the first application;

circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet; and

circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy.

2. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for implementing at least one aggregation policy obtained from the data received after signaling the first appnet.

3. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for receiving an indication of activity in the first application as the data received after signaling the first appnet.

4. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for receiving a selection of the first application as the data received after signaling the first appnet.

5. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for requesting information from the first application.

6. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy comprises:

circuitry for transmitting the at least a portion of the information in response to and within a day of a selection-indicative signal.

7. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for sending a message to the first appnet.

8. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for identifying a portion of the first application at the first core.

9. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for signaling via a control an option to include at least the first application.

10. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for adding at least one of one or more policy selections or one or more data records to a data aggregation.

11. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for associating a dissemination policy with at least the first application comprises:

circuitry for utilizing an application service router for distributing one or more processes associated with at least the first application to one or more endpoints in accordance with the dissemination policy.

12. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for adding one or more connectivity indicators to a data aggregation.

13. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for adding to a data aggregation at least a portion of the data received after signaling the first appnet.

14. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for updating a policy for aggregating the information.

15. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for including at least in a data aggregation at least a service configuration change indicator and at least one of an error record, a timestamp, or a network address.

16. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for including at least one or more object handles in a data aggregation.

17. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for adding one or more search terms to a data aggregation.

18. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy comprises:

circuitry for transmitting the at least a portion of the information in response to an authority-indicative request message.

19. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for signaling an application cluster relating with the first core and with the second core, the application cluster including at least the first application; and

circuitry for applying a common data aggregation policy to the application cluster.

20. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for establishing an aggregation agent at a third core; and

circuitry for establishing a linkage between the aggregation agent and at least one of the first core or the second core.

21. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for recording one or more system registry values.

22. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy comprises:

circuitry for including at least a link-layer protocol indicator within the at least a portion of the information.

23. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy comprises:

circuitry for including at least a time-indicative event indicator within the at least a portion of the information.

24. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy comprises:

circuitry for selecting the at least a portion of the information in response to receiving a selection policy.

25. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy comprises:

circuitry for broadcasting the at least a portion of the information.

26. The network subsystem of claim 1 further comprising:

one or more antennas operably coupled with the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy.

27. The network subsystem of claim 1 further comprising:

one or more data storage devices operably coupled with the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy.

28. The network subsystem of claim 1 further comprising:

one or more user interfaces operably coupled with the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy.

29. The network subsystem of claim 1 further comprising:

one or more processor cores operably coupled with the circuitry for transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy.

30. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for signaling a first application distributable across one or more of at least one first endpoint or at least one second endpoint.

31. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core, the first application including at least one or more processes, each of the one or more processes executable by a core.

32. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application jointly contained by a first core and by a second core.

33. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for signaling a first distributed application, the first distributed application including at least a first endpoint relating with at least one of a first core or a second core.

34. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for signaling, by an application service router, a first distributed application, the first distributed application relating with one or more of at least one endpoint or at least one core.

35. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core comprises:

circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application, the first application including at least a first process executing on a first core and a second process executing on a second core.

36. The network subsystem of claim 1 in which the circuitry for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet comprises:

circuitry for including at least one or more object handles in a data aggregation, the one or more object handles comprising at least one of one or more domain names or one or more IP addresses.

37. A network subsystem comprising:

circuitry for signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core;

circuitry for aggregating information in response to the data received after signaling the first appnet; and

circuitry for transmitting, according to a dissemination policy associated at least with the first application and with a recipient identifier, at least a portion of the information in response to the data received after signaling the first appnet.

38. A method for a network subsystem comprising:

signaling a first appnet, the first appnet including at least a first application relating with a first core and with a second core;

associating a dissemination policy with at least the first application;

aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first appnet; and

transmitting at least a portion of the information according to the dissemination policy,

wherein at least one of the signaling, associating, aggregating, or transmitting is at least partially implemented using at least one processing device.