Leases in a heterogenous data environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9436635-B1
Application number	US-201313770139-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Feb 19, 2013
Priority date	Aug 30, 2011
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

A computer implemented method, system and product comprising establishing a lease contract for an analytic subscription, defining an analytic subscription as an evaluation that is passed to a provider that provides a Boolean evaluation model and a potential true/false event expression, receiving, via the bus, events from the systems of records until the expiration of the lease; and rejecting during a specified period of time events received from the systems of record after the expiration of the lease period.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method for controlling information flow between systems of record connected to a bus comprising:
establishing a lease contract for an analytic subscription;
defining an analytic subscription as an evaluation that is passed to a provider that provides a Boolean evaluation model and a potential true/false event expression;
receiving, via the bus, events from adaptors communicatively coupled between the systems of record and the bus until the expiration of the lease, wherein each of the systems of record is enabled to have a different data model, and wherein the adaptors are enabled to transform specific events of each of the different data models from each of the systems of record into an event, wherein the bus is enabled to mitigate a change storm, wherein the change storm includes multiple conflicting events received by the bus from the systems of record; wherein the change storm further includes events from different systems of record; wherein during the change storm at least two of the different systems of record have one or more rules that conflict with the other different system of record for the events included in the change storm; wherein applying the one or more rules that conflict during the change storm would not mitigate the change storm; wherein mitigating the change storm includes the bus invoking stewardship by invoking mastering services communicatively coupled to the bus; wherein the mastering services overrides the conflicting rules to mitigate the change storm; and
rejecting during a specified period of time events received from the systems of record after the expiration of the lease period, wherein the specified period of time is equivalent to an amount of time to accumulate sufficient events for a particular analysis calculation, wherein the particular analysis calculation is based on the events received during the lease period, and wherein a policy is invoked to deal with a loss of access to resources.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving an event from a system of record of the systems of record after the expiration of the event, wherein the event includes a lightweight event, wherein the lightweight event contains metadata encapsulated within a lightweight message that indicates that the event has a temporal constraint;
rejecting the event; and
forcing the system of record to reach a consistent checkpoint before any event from the system of record is accepted.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
revoking access privileges to the resources of the system of record after the expiration of a lease period.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
reclaiming the resources given to the systems of record after the expiration of the lease; wherein the expiration of the lease occurs after a system of a record has consumed a predetermined amount of the resources.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the reclaiming the resources is facilitated through lease controlled registration of topic interests by agents; and
invoking a compensating transaction upon loss of access to the resources.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein the system of record reaching a consistent checkpoint includes reading from a log.

7. The method of claim 2 wherein the system of record reaching a consistent checkpoint includes restoring from the consistent checkpoint.

8. The method of claim 2 wherein a lease manager is enabled to cancel a lease to resources associated with the lease manager.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein a client requests a renegotiation of a new lease with the lease manager in order to process further events.

10. A computer program product for transferring information between systems of record connected to a bus comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable program code for controlling information flow, the code configured to enable the execution of:
establishing a lease contract for an analytic subscription;
defining an analytic subscription as an evaluation that is passed to a provider that provides a Boolean evaluation model and a potential true/false event expression;
receiving, via the bus, events from adaptors communicatively coupled between the systems of record and the bus until the expiration of the lease, wherein each of the systems of record is enabled to have a different data model, and wherein the adaptors are enabled to transform specific events of each of the different data models from each of the systems of record into an event, wherein the bus is enabled to mitigate a change storm, wherein the change storm includes multiple conflicting events received by the bus from the systems of record; wherein the change storm further includes events from different systems of record; wherein during the change storm at least two of the different systems of record have one or more rules that conflict with the other different system of record for the events included in the change storm; wherein applying the one or more rules that conflict during the change storm would not mitigate the change storm; wherein mitigating the change storm includes the bus invoking stewardship by invoking mastering services communicatively coupled to the bus; wherein the mastering services overrides the conflicting rules to mitigate the change storm; and
rejecting during a specified period of time events received from the systems of record after the expiration of the lease period, wherein the specified period of time is equivalent to an amount of time to accumulate sufficient events for a particular analysis calculation, wherein the particular analysis calculation is based on the events received during the lease period, and wherein a policy is invoked to deal with a loss of access to the resources.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 the code further configured to enable:
receiving an event from a system of record of the systems of record after the expiration of the event, wherein the event includes a lightweight event, wherein the lightweight event contains metadata encapsulated within a lightweight message that indicates that the event has a temporal constraint;
rejecting the event; and
forcing the system of record to reach a consistent checkpoint before any event from the system of record is accepted.

12. The computer program product of claim 10 the code further configured to enable:
revoking access privileges to the resources of the system of record after the expiration of a lease period.

13. The computer program product of claim 10 the code further configured to enable:
reclaiming the resources given to the systems of records after the expiration of the lease.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the reclaiming the resources is facilitated through lease controlled registration of topic interests by agents; and
invoking a compensating transaction upon loss of access to the resources.

15. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the system of record reaching a consistent checkpoint includes reading from a log.

16. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the system of record reaching a consistent checkpoint includes restoring from the consistent checkpoint.

17. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein a lease manager is enabled to cancel a lease to resources associated with the lease manager.

18. A system for transferring information between systems of record connected to a bus, the system comprising:
the bus;
the systems of record; and
computer-executable logic operating in me

Assignees

• Emc Corp

Inventors

• Hushon Jr John D
• Mcsweeny Thomas J
• Reiner David Stephen

Classifications

• G06F13/372 Primary

  using a time-dependent priority, e.g. individually loaded time counters or time slot · CPC title

• G06F9/542

  Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications · CPC title

• G06F9/541

  via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications · CPC title