Presence-based event driven architecture

• US 8,914,493 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2008
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Maes, Stephane H., Sun, Wenchao
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US12/045,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20090228584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,472 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/225, 709/205, 709/227, 709/222, 707/6, 707/9, 707/609, 725/46, 725/47, 719/318, 370/254, 370/401, 370/352, 379/67.1, 715/764
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using a presence-based network to monitor systems, devices, or agents. According to one embodiment, monitoring a system can comprise receiving a publication of one or more presence attributes from a presence network agent. The presence attributes can comprise at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information. A presence profile associated with the presence network agent can be updated based on the received presence attributes. One or more of the presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent can be provided to a listener. For example, providing presence attributes to the listener can comprise providing a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute. Additionally or alternatively, a request can be received from the listener for one or more presence attributes and the presence attribute can be provided in response to the request.

Claims

1. A monitoring system comprising:

an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB);

a monitored device associated with a presence network agent, the present network agent receiving monitored information from the monitored device and publishing one or more presence attributes via the ESB in response to receiving the monitored information;

a presence server communicatively coupled with the ESB, the presence server receiving the one or more published presence attributes from the presence agent of the monitored device via the ESB and updating a presence profile associated with the monitored device based on the received presence attributes, wherein the received presence attributes comprise at least one attribute indicating presence or location information and a plurality of attributes indicating information other than presence information, wherein the information other than presence information includes at least each of information indicating a non-presence status of a monitored device, a measurement from a monitored sensor other than a presence or location measurement, and a multimedia document, wherein the non-presence status indicates a status of the monitored device other than presence or location, and wherein updating the presence profile associated with the monitored device comprises storing the received at least one presence attribute indicating presence or location information and the plurality of presence attributes indicating information other than presence information all as attributes of the presence profile associated with the monitored device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the presence network agent comprises a Java Management Extension (JMX) MBean Monitor and wherein publishing one or more presence attributes comprises publishing Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) information.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the presence network agent is adapted to request monitored information, receive the monitored information in response to the request, and publish the one or more presence attributes in response to receiving the monitored information.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a listener communicatively coupled with the presence server and adapted to receive presence attributes from the presence server.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the listener is adapted to subscribe to the at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile and wherein the presence server provides the at least one presence attribute to the listener by providing a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the listener is adapted to request the presence attributes from the presence server and wherein the presence server provides the at least one presence attribute to the listener in response to the request.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the listener comprises a handler adapted to process the presence attributes received from the presence server.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the information other than presence information comprises event information.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the presence server is further adapted to provide an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) based on the event information.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the EDA is adapted to persist the one or more presence attributes based on one or more policies.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the EDA is adapted to expire the one or more presence attributes based on one or more policies.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the EDA is adapted to provide notification of past events to the listener based on one or more policies.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the EDA is implemented on the ESB.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the ESB is implemented on the EDA.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the ESB is adapted to subscribed to at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent and receive a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute from the presence server.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the ESB is adapted to publish one or more presence attributes to the presence server.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the ESB is adapted to publish the one or more presence attributes using Java Management Extensions (JMX) MBean Events.

18. The system of claim 9, wherein the EDA is adapted to provide real-time monitoring of a device associated with the presence network agent.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the presence attributes further comprise at least one attribute indicating presence information and one or more attributes indicating each of a non-presence status of a monitored device or process wherein the non-presence status indicates a status of the monitored device other than presence or location, a measurement from a monitored device other than a presence or location measurement, non-presence information collected or generated by a monitored application or process, and a multimedia document.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the EDA provides tracking of the device associated with the presence network agent based on the at least one attribute indicating presence information.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the device associated with the presence network agent comprises a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tag.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the device associated with the presence network agent comprises a sensor and the EDA is adapted to perform process monitoring based on at least one of the presence attributes.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the information other than presence information further comprises non-presence information collected or generated by a monitored application or process.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the information other than presence information further comprises a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to a document.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the information other than presence information further comprises a URI to a multimedia stream.

26. A method of monitoring a system, the method comprising:

receiving at a presence network agent information from a monitored device associated with the presence network agent;

publishing by the presence network agent a plurality of presence attributes via an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in response to receiving the information from the monitored device;

receiving at a presence server through the ESB the publication of the plurality of presence attributes from the presence network agent, the received presence attributes comprising at least one attribute indicating presence or location information and a plurality of attributes indicating information other than presence information, wherein the information other than presence information includes at least each of information indicating a non-presence status of a monitored device, a measurement from a monitored sensor other than a presence or location measurement, and a multimedia document, and wherein the non-presence status indicates a status of the monitored device other than presence or location;

updating a presence profile associated with the presence network agent with the presence server based on the received presence attributes, wherein updating the at least one presence profile comprises storing the received at least one presence attribute indicating presence or location information and the plurality of presence attributes indicating information other than presence information all as attributes of the presence profile associated with the monitored device; and

providing at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent from the presence server to a listener.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein providing at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent to the listener comprises providing a notification of a change in the at least one presence attribute.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising receiving at the presence server a request from the listener for at least one of the one or more presence attributes of the presence profile associated with the presence network agent and wherein providing the at least one presence attribute to the listener is performed in response to the request.

29. The method of claim 26, wherein the information other than presence information comprises event information.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising providing with the presence server an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) based on the event information.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing real-time monitoring of a device associated with the presence network agent.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein providing the EDA comprises persisting one or more of the presence attributes based on one or more policies.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein providing the EDA comprises expiring one or more of the presence attributes based on one or more policies.

34. The method of claim 32, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing notification of past events to the listener based on one or more policies.

35. The method of claim 30, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing tracking of the device associated with the presence network agent based on the at least one attribute indicating presence information.

36. The method of claim 30, wherein the device associated with the presence network agent comprises a sensor and wherein providing the EDA comprises performing process monitoring based on at least one of the presence attributes.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein providing the EDA comprises providing real-time monitoring of a process associated with the presence network agent.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein providing real-time monitoring of the process associated with the presence network agent comprises providing a notification of a change in status of the process based on one or more of the presence attributes.