US 8,713,158 B2 · System, method and computer program product for monitoring and controlling network connections from a supervisory operating system

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product that is designed to support high-availability, rapid fault recovery, out of band condition signaling and/or other quality of service assurances and security in a networked environment. In one aspect, a method of the invention includes the step of providing a processing system with a dual-kernel or multi-kernel software operating system. The operating system includes a supervisory operating system and a secondary operating system that provides network functions to user applications. The method also includes the step of providing a Network Control Software (NCS) in the supervisory operating system. The NCS is configured to transparently monitor and control network operations in the secondary operating system.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

configuring a processing device to include a supervisory operating system and a secondary operating system, wherein the secondary operating system is configured to provide network services to network clients;
and
providing network control software configured to execute as an application of the supervisory operating system, wherein the network control software is configured to monitor network communication in the secondary operating system,
wherein the supervisory operating system is configured to preempt the secondary operating system, and
wherein the secondary operating system comprises a virtual network driver that emulates a network device driver.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/379,407Filed 20 Feb 2009 · continuation

Priority

23 Aug 2002

Published

US 2009/0204709 A113 Aug 2009

Granted

29 Apr 2014

Term ends

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Classification12 codes

H04L 41/5019
Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS: ensuring fulfilment of SLA
G06F 9/45537
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE
H04L 41/0663
Using network fault recovery: performing the actions predefined by failover planning, e.g. switching to standby network elements
H04L 43/00
Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks

Family

Application10/226,106Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Aug 2002

Application10/892,308Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Jul 2004

US 6,782,424 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Aug 2004

Application11/889,117Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Aug 2007

US 7,330,891 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Feb 2008

US 7,516,217 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Apr 2009

US 2009/0204709 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Aug 2009

US 2004/0098473 A1Published application

US 2004/0260809 A1Published application

US 2007/0276941 A1Published application

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System, method and computer program product for monitoring and controlling network connections from a supervisory operating system

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System, method and computer program product for monitoring and controlling network connections from a supervisory operating system

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Abstract

Claims16