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Title: Event heap: a coordination infrastructure for dynamic heterogeneous application interactions in ubiquitous computing environments

Abstract

An efficient and adaptive middleware infrastructure called the Event Heap system dynamically coordinates application interactions and communications in a ubiquitous computing environment, e.g., an interactive workspace, having heterogeneous software applications running on various machines and devices across different platforms. Applications exchange events via the Event Heap. Each event is characterized by a set of unordered, named fields. Events are routed by matching certain attributes in the fields. The source and target versions of each field are automatically set when an event is posted or used as a template. The Event Heap system implements a unique combination of features, both intrinsic to tuplespaces and specific to the Event Heap, including content based addressing, support for routing patterns, standard routing fields, limited data persistence, query persistence/registration, transparent communication, self-description, flexible typing, logical/physical centralization, portable client API, at most once per source first-in-first-out ordering, and modular restartability.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1176248
Patent Number(s):
7702729
Application Number:
10/821,756
Assignee:
Johanson, Bradley E., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2004 Apr 08
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Johanson, Bradley E., Fox, Armando, Winograd, Terry A., and Hanrahan, Patrick M. Event heap: a coordination infrastructure for dynamic heterogeneous application interactions in ubiquitous computing environments. United States: N. p., 2010. Web.
Johanson, Bradley E., Fox, Armando, Winograd, Terry A., & Hanrahan, Patrick M. Event heap: a coordination infrastructure for dynamic heterogeneous application interactions in ubiquitous computing environments. United States.
Johanson, Bradley E., Fox, Armando, Winograd, Terry A., and Hanrahan, Patrick M. Tue . "Event heap: a coordination infrastructure for dynamic heterogeneous application interactions in ubiquitous computing environments". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1176248.
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Works referenced in this record:

The Event Heap: a coordination infrastructure for interactive workspaces
conference, January 2002


The Interactive Workspaces project: experiences with ubiquitous computing rooms
journal, April 2002


Multibrowsing: Moving Web Content across Multiple Displays
book, October 2001