Method for operating a service system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018159697-A1
Application number	US-201615577350-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 18, 2016
Priority date	Mar 18, 2016
Publication date	Jun 7, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method for operating one or more service systems performed in a memory of an analyzing entity (AE) includes a) receiving, by an input interface of the AE, one or more control requests for controlling one or more resources of at least one of the one or more service systems; b) assessing, by the AE, an impact on the one or more service systems of the one or more control requests by checking an effect on already performed control requests for resources of the one or more service systems when the one or more control requests would be performed on one or more of the resources of the at least one of one or more service systems; and c) checking, by the AE, if the assessed impact violates one or more adverse situation rules (ASR).

First claim

1 : A method for operating one or more service systems, the method being performed in a memory of an analyzing entity (AE), the method comprising:
a) receiving, by an input interface of the AE, one or more control requests for controlling one or more resources of at least one of the one or more service systems; b) assessing, by the AE, an impact on the one or more service systems of the one or more control requests by checking an effect on already performed control requests for resources of the one or more service systems when the one or more control requests would be performed on one or more of the resources of the at least one of one or more service systems; c) checking, by the AE, if the assessed impact violates one or more adverse situation rules (ASR), wherein an ASR violation represents a situation of the service system in which at least partly contradicting effects on one or more resources of the one or more service systems would occur due to a performance of the one or more control requests; d) upon violation of one or more ASR, computing, by the AE to reduce violation of the one or more ASR, one or more adapted control requests for one or more of the control requests and/or one or more of the ready performed control requests; e) negotiating, by the AE, with requestors of the one or more of the control requests and/or the one or more of the already performed control requests, the computed adapted control requests until acceptance is achieved, wherein the negotiating includes one or more recomputed adapted control requests; and f) upon acceptance, transmitting, by the AE, the accepted control requests via an output interface to recipients of the control requests.

2 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein for assessing the impact on the one or more service systems, operational parameters representing behavior of the one or more service systems and/or contextual information is evaluated.

3 : The method according to claim 2 , wherein the operational parameters and/or the contextual information is provided by a neural network and/or a database.

4 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein for determining an ASR violation, energy consumption constraints.

5 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein an ASR is provided in form of a logical expression of one or more conditions of the one or more service systems which are not permissible.

6 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein for at least step b) and/or d), sensor information of sensors and actuator information of actuators of resources of the one or more service systems is provided.

7 : The method according to claim 6 , wherein the sensor information and the actuator information includes energy consumption information of the resources.

8 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein steps c)-f) are performed for already admitted control requests in pre-defined time-intervals and/or periodically.

9 : The method according to claim 2 , wherein the operational parameters are evaluated dynamically.

10 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein for determining a violation of one or more ASR effects of different control requests are weighed against each other.

11 : The method according to claim 10 , wherein the weights are dependent on the time a request is already admitted or on a value of an operational parameter on which the request has an impact or weights are determined based on external information.

12 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein an algebra is computed to identify possible valid adaptions to control requests.

13 : The method according to claim 1 , wherein relative importance rankings are determined and used during and for the negotiation.

14 : A computing entity, comprising:
an input interface configured to receive one or more control requests for controlling one or more resources of one or more service systems, an output interface configured to transmit accepted control requests to recipients of the control requests, a computer comprising a processor and a memory, the computer being configured to:
receive, from the input interface, one or more control requests for controlling one or more resources of at least one of the one or more service systems,
assess the impact on the one or more service systems of the one or more control requests by checking the effect on already performed control requests for resources of the one or more service systems, when the one or more control requests would be performed on one or more of the resources of the at least one of the one or more service systems,
check if the assessed impact violates one or more adverse situation rules (ASR), wherein an ASR violation represents a situation of the service system in which at least partly contradicting effects on one or more resources of the one or more service systems would occur due to a performance of the one or more control requests,
compute, upon violation of one or more ASR, one or more adapted control requests for one or more of control requests and/or one or more of the already performed control requests, the computing being directed to reduce violation of the ASR,
negotiate with requestors of the one or more of the control requests and/or the one or more of the already performed control requests, the computed adapted control requests until acceptance is achieved, wherein the negotiating includes one or more recomputed adapted control requests, and
transmit the accepted control requests via the output interface to the recipients of the control requests.

15 : A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program configured, when executed, to cause a computer to execute a method for operating one or more service systems, the method comprising:
a) receiving, by an input interface of the AE, one or more control requests for controlling one or more resources of at least one of the one or more service systems; b) assessing, by the AE, an impact on the one or more service systems of the one or more control requests by checking an effect on already performed control requests for resources of the one or more service systems when the one or more control requests would be performed on one or more of the resources of the at least one of one or more service systems; c) checking, by the AE; if the assessed impact violates one or more adverse situation rules (ASR), wherein an ASR violation represents a situation of the service system in which at least partly contradicting effects on one or more resources of the one or more service systems would occur due to a performance of the one or more control requests; d) upon violation of one or more ASR, computing, by the AE to reduce violation of the one or more ASR, one or more adapted control requests for one or more of the control requests and/or one or more of the already performed control requests; e) negotiating, by the AE, with requestors of the one or more of the control requests and/or the one or more of the already performed control requests, the computed adapted control requests until acceptance is achieved, wherein the negotiating includes one or more recomputed adapted control requests; and f) upon acceptance, transmitting, by the AE, the accepted control requests via an output interface to recipients of the control requests.

Assignees

• Nec Europe Ltd

Inventors

• Schmidt Mischa
• Schuelke Anett

Classifications

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