Appeal No. 1999-1583
Application No. 08/377,390
The invention is directed to a fault tolerant monitoring
and control system in a distributed processing network. The
network includes a plurality of computer systems executing a
plurality of service processes that cooperatively perform a
function. Monitored processes and exporter processes exchange
messages.
An exporter process sends messages to a monitored process
about the state of one or more service processes. The
exporter process receives messages from the monitored process
and transfers information to one or more controlled service
processes. A new export process is instantiated if a message
is received that one or more of the service processes being
monitored has failed.
Claim 3 is reproduced as follows:
3. A fault tolerant monitoring and control system in a
distributed processing network, wherein the distributed
processing network includes a plurality of computer systems
for executing a plurality of service processes which
cooperatively perform a function across the plurality of
service processes, comprising:
a plurality of export processes, wherein at least one
export process is associated with each one of the plurality of
computer systems;
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