Automated self-forming, self-healing configuration permitting substitution of software agents to effect a live repair of a system implemented on hardware processors
US7549077B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 22, 2005 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 11, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04Q3/0079
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A configuration for use with a processor that incorporates a suite of “flat” hardware architecture and superimposes thereon a self-forming, self-healing, hierarchical architecture implemented in software. Embodiments may be employed in various applications, such as maintaining network integrity. In one embodiment, a building security monitoring network provides for automated network agents to each be capable of communication with any other automated agents on a network at network startup. Shortly after network initialization, the software architecture is superimposed on the flat hardware architecture, re-arranging communication links to provide an efficient hierarchy of control and substituting working agents for compromised agents as necessary in the network. All of this is done in a “live” network, not requiring shutdown, or even reduced operation to accomplish. This “dual” architecture (hierarchical software and flat hardware) provides excellent reliability in those “layered” network applications requiring near total reliability, such as security surveillance.
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