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US 7,461,172 B2Granted
Methods, apparatus, and program products for configuring components in networked computing environments
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsMark W. Newman, W. Keith Edwards, Jason Hong, Shahram Izadi, Karen J. Marcelo, Jana Z. Sedivy, Trevor F. Smith
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Abstract
Methods, systems, apparatus and program products for gathering contextual history from components in an environment and applying an operation on the gathered history to assist a user in selecting which components to use in the environment.
Claims17
A computer controlled method comprising:
- receiving, by a first component having a first contextual history, a contextual history from a requestor component comprising contextual changes made by one or more other components, wherein the contextual changes comprise component-level context selected from the group comprising operations performed and parameters exchanged;
- authenticating the requestor component based on a credibility criteria comprising a value applied to the other components;
- applying an operation on the first component based on said contextual changes, comprising:
- selecting the requestor component for the other components that satisfy the credibility criteria;
- and
- rolling the first contextual history of the first component back to a state existing prior to application of the operation for the other components that fail to satisfy the credibility criteria;
- and
- storing the received contextual history and a status of the operation with the first contextual history.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver mechanism of a first component having a first contextual history in receipt of a contextual history from a requestor component comprising contextual changes made by one or more other components, wherein the contextual changes comprise component-level context selected from the group comprising operations performed and parameters exchanged;
- an authentication mechanism that authenticates the requestor component based on a credibility criteria comprising a value applied to the other components;
- an operation mechanism that applies an operation on the first component based on said contextual changes, comprising:
- a selection mechanism that selects the requestor component for the other components that satisfy the credibility criteria;
- and
- a rollback mechanism that rolls the first contextual history of the first component back to a state existing prior to application of the operation for the other components that fail to satisfy the credibility criteria;
- and
- a storage mechanism that stores the received contextual history and a status of the operation with the first contextual history.
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A computer-readable storage medium holding code for performing a method, comprising:
- code for receiving, by a first component having a first contextual history, a contextual history from a requestor component comprising contextual changes made by one or more other components, wherein the contextual changes comprise component-level context selected from the group comprising operations performed and parameters exchanged;
- code for authenticating the requestor component based on a credibility criteria comprising a value applied to the other components;
- code for applying an operation on the first component based on said contextual changes, comprising:
- code for selecting the requestor component for the other components that satisfy the credibility criteria;
- and
- code for rolling the first contextual history of the first component back to a state existing prior to application of the operation for the other components that fail to satisfy the credibility criteria;
- and
- code for storing the received contextual history and a status of the operation with the first contextual history.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.