US 2010/0306384 A1 · Multi-directional secure common data transport system

Abstract

The improved secure common data transport system features a transport bus, a system bus, and agents operating as software or a combination of hardware and software running on connected computers. Each agent contains various lower-level components for internal operations and modules that provide overall functionality. The agent interfaces with other agents via the system and transport busses. To communicate, Data, Control Logic, IO, and Security modules within an agent allow the agent to create a ticket that is formatted in XML and encrypted for security. Agents connect with other agents utilizing a Multi-IO Socket Engine that allows for true multi-directional communications socket connections. Multi-directional communication allows a first agent to communicate with a second agent simultaneously as the second agent is communicating with the first. The overall network configuration is determined by the types of socket connection the agents establish.

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Dependent claims

An agent module operable on a first networked computing device, the agent module for providing multi-directional data communications between the first networked computing device and one or more other networked computing devices, the agent module comprising:

a control logic (CL) module for creating and processing ticket structures, wherein each ticket structure contains source agent module and destination agent module specific fields;
and
an input output (IO) module for the creation and handling of network socket connections with other like-modules, wherein the IO module comprises one or more outbound network sockets and a plurality of inbound network sockets, and wherein the IO module is capable of simultaneously supporting at least one inbound network socket connection from another agent module operable on a second networked computing device and at least one outbound network socket connection to the another agent module on the second networked computing device.

A method for providing multi-directional data communications between a plurality of networked computing devices, the method steps comprising:

providing a first agent module operable on a first computing device and a second agent module operable on a second computing device networked with the first computing device, wherein each agent module comprises:
a control logic (CL) module for creating and processing ticket structures, wherein each ticket structure contains source agent module and destination agent module specific fields;
and
an input output (IO) module for the creation and handling of network socket connections with other agent modules, wherein the IO module comprises one or more outbound network sockets and a plurality of inbound network sockets, and wherein the IO module is capable of simultaneously supporting at least one inbound network socket connection from a second module and at least one outbound network socket connection to the second module;
establishing an outbound socket connection from the first agent module to the second agent module;
establishing an outbound socket connection from the second agent module to the first agent module;
and
transmitting ticket structures from the first agent module to the second agent module while simultaneously transmitting ticket structures from the second agent module to the first agent module.

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Multi-directional secure common data transport system

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Abstract

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