Ronald L Howard

US Patent:

20100011207, Jan 14, 2010

Filed:

Jul 11, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/171845

Inventors:

Barry R. Fox - Ballwin MO, US
Ronald J. Howard - Chesterfield MO, US
Kenneth J. Moroney - Chesterfield MO, US

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

H04L 9/00
H04K 1/00
G06F 15/173

US Classification:

713155, 380255, 709225

Abstract:

A system for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) communication includes a plurality of SOA nodes having a standardized hardware configuration, wherein the standardized hardware configuration includes an operating engine, an encryption module accessed by the operating engine, which provides security for message traffic, a compression module to compress and decompress the message traffic, a routing module accessed by the operating engine, to determine the routing of message types, incoming traffic routed to appropriate service clients, outbound traffic routed to appropriate SOA devices, a security module that authenticates and authorizes message traffic, and one or more network interfaces, and one or more networks over which the SOA nodes communicate with one another.

US Patent:

20100274898, Oct 28, 2010

Filed:

Apr 28, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/431048

Inventors:

Christopher Kenneth Zuver - St. Peters MO, US
Carl Joseph Hanks - St. Louis MO, US
Fernando A. Zamith - St. Louis City MO, US
Ronald J. Howard - Chesterfield MO, US

Assignee:

THE BOEING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709226

Abstract:

A system for effecting communications among a plurality of devices situated in a plurality of domains employing differing operating protocols; the system including: (a) at least one topology agent situated in a source domain of the domains and configured for effecting operation of the system among the domains; (b) at least one negotiator agent situated between the source domain and a respective other domain and configured for selective coupling with a respective topology agent; the at least one negotiator agent implementing quality of service parameters provided by the respective topology agent to convey communications from the source domain to the other domain; and (c) a plurality of proxy agents; at least one proxy agent being situated in each respective other domain and configured for implementing quality of service policies received from the respective negotiator agent to effect the communications within the respective other domain.