Patent ID: 8069443
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for establishing a processing environment, comprising: configuring a processing container for processing devices that are distributed over multiple networks, the processing container defines unique processing contexts occurring within the processing devices and each processing context representing a processing group; configuring processing groups within the processing container, each processing group having a unique context; loading applications within each processing group's context; establishing a processing environment having the applications processing within their respective processing group's context and within the container; and interfacing two or more of the processing groups using connector interfaces included within the processor container, and each connector interface processes for its respective processing group types of input used by each application within that processing group and types of output produced by each application within that processing group thereby permitting interfacing between the two or more processing groups, each connector interface is a protocol that defines common events, parameters, and output of that connector interface's processing group thereby permitting the processing groups to interface with one another and translate data from one application in one processing group to different data used by a different application in a different processing group; and, the processing groups perform their own authentication, each application performs additional authentication, and the processing container performs other authentication where the authentication technique used by the processing container is a particular one of the processing groups, the processing group for the authentication technique is an Operating System (OS) authentication processing group that performs on-box authentication and off-box authentication, the on-box authentication necessitates no pass through of the OS and the off-box authentication necessitates pass through of the OS to external boxes for authentication.