SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SHARING INFORMATION IN A DISTRIBUTED FRAMEWORK

• US 20080288954A1
• Filed: 07/30/2008
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Axel Fuchs, Scott Sturges Andrews
• Original Assignee: Axel Fuchs, Scott Sturges Andrews
• Inventors: Fuchs, Axel, Andrews, Scott Sturges
• Granted Patent: US 8,209,705 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/310
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0231 Circuits relating to the driving or the functioning of the vehicle monitoring tyres B60C23/00; indicating overspeed B60K31/00; for dash boards B60K37/00, B60Q3/10; for indicating emergencies B60Q1/52; brake control systems B60T; registering or indicating the working of vehicles G07C5/00; measuring distance G01C, e.g. combinations of speed and distance G01C23/00; engine indicators G01L; measuring speed or acceleration G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/547 Messaging middleware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/545 where tasks reside in different layers, e.g. user- and kernel-space
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/102 Gateways arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways, H04L12/66
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product are provided for sharing information in a distributed system. After information is received, it is stored on a bulletin board. In use, the information is shared, in real-time, among a plurality of heterogeneous processes.

Claims

1. A method for sharing information in a distributed system, comprising:

receiving information;

storing the information on a bulletin board; and

sharing, in real-time, the information among a plurality of heterogeneous processes.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information is replicated among a plurality of the bulletin boards.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein both past and present instances of the information are stored on the bulletin boards.

4. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the bulletin boards are hierarchical.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein both past and present instances of the information are stored on the bulletin board.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the processes access multiple sections of the bulletin board.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein a bulletin board manager sends notifications to the processes based on a state of the information on the bulletin board.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information includes variables.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the information includes input variables.

10. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the information includes output variables.

11. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the processes include local processes.

12. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the processes include remote processes.

13. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the processes process the information in a manner that is isolated from temporal characteristics associated with the network.

14. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the processes include both event triggered processes and time triggered processes.

15. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information is extracted from a message received by a bulletin board manager.

16. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information is converted from a signal received by a bulletin board manager.

17. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information is shared in a single task.

18. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information is shared according to a schedule.

19. A computer program product for sharing information in a distributed system, comprising:

computer code for receiving information;

computer code for storing the information on a bulletin board; and

computer code for sharing, in real-time, the information among a plurality of heterogeneous processes.

20. A system for sharing information in a distributed system, comprising:

logic for receiving information;

logic for storing the information on a bulletin board; and

logic for sharing, in real-time, the information among a plurality of heterogeneous processes.