Distributable Serializable Finite State Machine

摘要

A distributable and serializable finite state machine and methods for using the distributable and serializable finite state machine are provided wherein finite state machine instance can be location-shifted, time-shifted or location-shift and time-shifted, for example by serializing and deserializing each instance. Each instance can be located-shifted between agents, and a persistent memory storage location is provided to facilitate both location-shifting and time-shifting. Finite state machine instances and the actions that make up each instance can be run in a distributed fashion among a plurality of agents.

主权项

1. A method for managing finite state machines in a computing system, the method comprising employing a distributed finite state machine control application program interface to perform at least one of:
determining a set of finite state machine instances; selecting a target instance; forwarding a transition to a target instance; forwarding an event to a target instance; registering an instance; unregistering an instance; registering a transition event; and unregistering a transition event.