Resource command messages and methods

摘要

Resource command messages comprise commands and command urgency or importance information that is interpreted by a resource device and is coupled with information relating to the resource device to determine when to process the command within the resource command message. Resource devices comprising a plurality of resource nodes provide increased performance, responsiveness, and load balancing by multiple resource nodes processing the same resource command message in parallel.

主权项

1. An article of manufacture comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and instructions within the computer-readable medium that, when executed, cause a node:
to transmit, in a first multicast message, a first resource command message to a plurality of resource nodes over a communication path;to receive responses to the first resource command message from the plurality of resource nodes;to select a preferred provider from the plurality of resource nodes based at least in part on the responses received from the plurality of resource nodes; andto transmit, in a second multicast message, a second resource command message to the plurality of resource nodes, the second resource command message including a command and an indication of the preferred provider selected from the plurality of resource nodes, said second resource command message to instruct the preferred provider to process the command with a first urgency and to instruct another resource node of the plurality of resource nodes to process the command with a second urgency that is less than the first urgency.