US 11,941,432 B2
Processing system, processing method, higher-level system, lower-level system, higher-level program, and lower-level program
Yuichi Suto, Musashino (JP); Atsushi Takada, Musashino (JP); and Aiko Oi, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/430,230
Filed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 31, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/003605
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 11, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/166374, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-025416 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0164219 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/48 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/485 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processing system comprising a high-order system and a low-order system, the high-order system configured to process a high-order workflow and to transmit a processing command to the low-order system, the low-order system configured to process a low-order workflow in accordance with the processing command from the high-order system and to transmit a device command to a device,
the high-order system including:
a storage device configured to store progress data in which an identifier of the device and a device command to be executed by the device are associated with each other;
a high-order workflow advancing unit, including one or more processors, configured to transmit a processing command for asynchronous processing to the low-order system; and
a notice processing unit, including one or more processors, configured to receive, from the low-order system, a notice related to the device command to be executed by the device in the asynchronous processing, and update the progress data, the low-order system including:
a low-order workflow advancing unit, including one or more processors, configured to transmit, upon receiving the processing command from the high-order system, the device command to the device; and
a notification unit, including one or more processors, configured to notify, when transmission of the device command to the device is detected, the high-order system of the identifier of the device to which the device command was transmitted and the device command.