Method of distributing software updates in an event-driven network
CA 2402254 A1 · Owner: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) · Inventors: O'Flanagan, David; Kelledy, Fergus; Gosselin, Nicolas
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A method of distributing software, to handle previously unknown event types in a large multi-domain "federation" network of decoupled event-driven components. The components comprise producer components (10) which produce events and consumer components (25) which consume events to fulfill their specific roles in the federation. A producer component first determines a plurality of new events occurring in the network as a result of a new event type, and classifies the plurality of new events into at least one event-specific class. The producer component then pushes a single event (14) of an event-specific class into the network along with a new software strategy (13) for handling the …
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