Multi-process interactive systems and methods
View Patent ↗A multi-process interactive system is described. The system includes numerous processes running on a processing device. The processes include separable program execution contexts of application programs, such that each application program comprises at least one process. The system translates events of each process into data capsules. A data capsule includes an application-independent representation of event data of an event and state information of the process originating the content of the data capsule. The system transfers the data messages into pools or repositories. Each process operates as a recognizing process, where the recognizing process recognizes in the pools data capsules comprising content that corresponds to an interactive function of the recognizing process and/or an identification of the recognizing process. The recognizing process retrieves recognized data capsules from the pools and executes processing appropriate to contents of the recognized data capsules.
1. A method comprising:
executing a plurality of processes on a processing device, the plurality of processes including separable program execution contexts of a plurality of application programs, wherein each application program comprises at least one process;
translating events of each process of the plurality of processes into data messages, wherein a data message includes an application-independent representation of event data of an event and state information of the process originating the data message;
transferring the data messages into at least one pool of a plurality of pools;
coordinating among the processes, the coordinating including each process of the plurality of processes coordinating with peer processes of the plurality of processes by retrieving from the plurality of pools the state information of the peer processes; and
generating an output of the plurality of processes by interactively combining a set of data messages of at least one pool of the plurality of pools.