1. A method for correlating services within a computer network, the method comprising:
providing a message interchange network for exchanging application-level messages between a plurality of services that are located outside the message interchange network;
receiving, at the message interchange network, a plurality of application-level messages that each specify which one or more receiving services are to receive the each application-level message and forwarding each received application-level message towards the one or more receiving services;
retaining correlation information regarding each application-level message received into message interchange network, wherein the application-level messages are being sent between pairs of the services, wherein the retained correlation information for each application-level message pertans to each application-level message and any other application-level messages related to the each application-level message;
receiving, at the message interchange network, a query from a first service to search the retained correlation information for a specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information; and
sending, to the first service, a response to the query that includes the specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising registering, at the message interchange network, each service so that each registered service is specified as being accessible by one or more specific services.
3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the retained correlation information for each application-level message further includes an indication as to whether the each application-level message has completed transmission.
4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the session information for each session includes a Session Identifier (ID) uniquely identifying the each session and the session information for each session further includes an indication as to whether the each session is complete and a reason for the session not being complete if the each session fails to complete.
5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the query for the retained correlation information is regarding a particular session or call and wherein the specific portions of the retained correlation information that are sent to the first service are related to the particular session or call of the query.
6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising determining whether the first service is authorized to make the query and only sending the specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information that are sent to the first service when it is determined that the first service is authorized.
7. A computer system operable to correlate services within a computer network the computer system comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memory, wherein at least one of the processors and memory are adapted for:
providing a message interchange network for exchanging application-level messages between a plurality of services that are located outside the message interchange network;
receiving, at the message interchange network, a plurality of application-level messages that each specify which one or more receiving services are to receive the each application-level message and forwarding each received application-level message towards the one or more receiving services;
retaining correlation information regarding each application-level message received into message interchange network, wherein the application-level messages are being sent between pairs of the services, wherein the retained correlation information for each application-level message pertains to each application-level message and any other application-level messages related to the each application-level message;
receiving, at the message interchange network, a query from a first service to search the retained correlation information for a specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information; and
sending, to the first service, a response to the query that includes the specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information.
8. The computer system as recited in claim 7, wherein at least one of the processors and memory are further adapted for registering, at the message interchange network, each service so that each registered service is specified as being accessible by one or more specific services.
9. The computer system as recited in claim 7, wherein the retained correlation information for each application-level message further includes an indication as to whether the each application-level message has completed transmission.
10. The computer system as recited in claim 7, wherein the session information for each session includes a Session Identifier (ID) uniquely identifying the each session and the session information for each session further includes an indication as to whether the each session is complete and a reason for the session not being complete if the each session fails to complete.
11. The computer system as recited in claim 7, wherein the query for the retained correlation information is regarding a particular session or call and wherein the specific portions of the retained correlation information that are sent to the first service are related to the particular session or call of the query.
12. The computer system as recited in claim 7, wherein at least one of the processors and memory are further adapted for determining whether the first service is authorized to make the query and only sending the specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information that are sent to the first service when it is determined that the first service is authorized.
13. A computer program product for correlating services within a computer network, the computer program product comprising:
at least one computer readable medium;
computer program instructions stored within the at least one computer readable medium configured for:
providing a message interchange network for exchanging application-level messages between a plurality of services that are located outside the message interchange network;
receiving, at the message interchange network, a plurality of application-level messages that each specify which one or more receiving services are to receive the each application-level message and forwarding each received application-level message towards the one or more receiving services;
retaining correlation information regarding each application-level message received into message interchange network, wherein the application-level messages are being sent between pairs of the services, wherein the retained correlation information for each application-level message pertans to each application-level message and any other application-level messages related to the each application-level message;
receiving, at the message interchange network, a query from a first service to search the retained correlation information for a specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information; and
sending, to the first service, a response to the query that includes the specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information.
14. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, the computer program instructions stored within the at least one computer readable medium being further configured for registering, at the message interchange network, each service so that each registered service is specified as being accessible by one or more specific services.
15. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein the retained correlation information for each application-level message further includes an indication as to whether the each application-level message has completed transmission.
16. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein the session information for each session includes a Session Identifier (ID) uniquely identifying the each session and the session information for each session further includes an indication as to whether the each session is complete and a reason for the session not being complete if the each session fails to complete.
17. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein the query for the retained correlation information is regarding a particular session or call and wherein the specific portions of the retained correlation information that are sent to the first service are related to the particular session or call of the query.
18. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, the computer program instructions stored within the at least one computer readable medium being further configured for determining whether the first service is authorized to make the query and only sending the specific one or more portions of the retained correlation information that are sent to the first service when it is determined that the first service is authorized.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for manufacturing a three-dimensionally deformable, sheet-like reinforcing structure, comprising:
incorporating material attenuations into a sheet-like, cellular base material, distributed over an area of the base material, by at least one of piercing, cutting and sawing, said material attenuations sub-dividing the base material into a plurality of material cells said material cells delineated from each other by said material attenuations but are still connected to each other.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material attenuations are incorporated in such a way that bridges remain between adjacent material attenuations and connect adjacent material cells to each other.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein a cross-sectional area of the bridges is reduced by compression.
4. The method according to claim 2, wherein a cross-sectional area of the bridges is reduced by compression from an upper and a lower side of the bridges.
5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the cross-sectional area of the bridges is reduced by heating and compressing the heated bridges.
6. The method according to claim 2, wherein the bridges are compacted, such that they fall short of an upper side and a lower side of the respectively adjacent material cells.
7. The method according to claim 2, wherein a cross-sectional area of the bridges is reduced as compared with a cross-sectional area of the material cells such they fall short of an upper side and a lower side of the respectively adjacent material cells.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the bridges are closer to one of the upper side and the lower side than to the respective other one of the upper side and the lower side.
9. The method according to claim 7, wherein each of the bridges fall short of the upper side by at least a first distance and each of the bridges fall short of the lower side by at most a second distance, the first distance being greater than the second distance.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material cells are compacted near the surface and thus rounded on an upper side or a lower side, along at least a part of edges formed by incorporating the material attenuations.
11. The method according to claim 6, wherein the material cells are heated at least in the region of the edges to be rounded, and are compacted near the surface along the heated edges.
12. The method according to claim 1, wherein cutting involves stabbing which preferably penetrates through the base material.
13. The method according to claim 1, wherein sawing involves jig or sabre sawing which preferably penetrates through the base material.
14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material attenuations are incorporated by piercing or cutting and then sawing.
15. The method according to claim 10, wherein piercing or cutting is performed in a piercing or cutting plane, and sawing is performed in the same cutting plane.
16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material attenuations are produced in the base material in the form of recesses or preferably passages, by cutting or sawing or piercing.
17. The method according to claim 1, wherein cutting is performed using cutting knives or sawing is performed using saw blades or piercing is performed by using piercing needles which are only moved in a single cutting or sawing or piercing plane when incorporating the material attenuations.
18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material attenuations are sawn using saw blades which exhibit a thickness which corresponds to a width of the material attenuations.
19. The method according to claim 2, wherein in order to incorporate the material attenuations, cutting knives of a cutting tool or saw blades of a sawing tool or piercing needles facing an upper side of the base material are moved into or through the base material towards a lower side of the base material.
20. The method according to claim 15, wherein the cutting knives each comprise a cutting edge which is inclined with respect to the movement direction, or the saw blades each comprise a row of saw teeth which is inclined with respect to the movement direction.
21. The method according to claim 16, wherein the cutting knives or saw blades or piercing needles comprise a tip protruding in the movement direction.
22. The method according to claim 1, wherein plastic foam material is used as the base material, in which reinforcing structures are optionally embedded.
23. The method according to claim 2, wherein the reinforcing structure comprising the material cells, the material attenuations and the bridges is covered at an upper side with a first covering layer and at a lower side with a second covering layer, the attenuations being filled with a joiner which encloses the bridges.
24. The method according to claim 23, wherein at least one of the covering layers is a layer pre-impregnated with the joiner.
25. The method according to claim 23, wherein the reinforcing structure is covered with one of the layers, all or only part of the joiner is poured onto the reinforcing structure to fill the attenuations, and then the reinforcing structure filled with the joiner is covered with the other of the covering layers.
26. The method according to claim 23, wherein the joiner connects the covering layers to each other in a material connection, permeates the reinforcing structure in the region of the material attenuations and encloses the bridges and at least the sides of the material cells of the reinforcing structure.