International Business Machines Corporation

Wojciech T Stryjewski

William Kress Bodin

Derral Charles Thorson

James Anthony Pafumi

Bryan William Clark

David Patrick Huff

Andre Laurent Albot

Michael S Karasick

Robert G Kovacs

Michael E Lyons

Albert Chung-Chee Kwok

John Richard Del Pizzo, Jr

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for implementing a generic kernel extension framework that operate generally to allow one kernel extension to register a function callable by other kernel extensions. A kernel extension can be loaded even if a function it potentially could need is not available. If in fact the running kernel extension does eventually request a function that no other kernel extension has registered to provide, it is failed gracefully with a return error code. The client kernel extension can still function normally, assuming the desired service is non-critical. Example services in the non-critical category may include, for example, advanced error handling functions, statistical functions, reporting functions, and so on, including many others as will occur to those of skill in the art.

Administration of kernel extensions

An opportunity server searches for potential vehicle repair transaction providers by receiving a signal from a mobile system indicating a need for a transaction with a business entity responsive to an on-board diagnostic detection of a real-time fault condition resulting in recording of a Diagnostic Trouble Code; automatically issuing requests for bids for the transaction to provider parties located in a first potential geographic point for repair service indicating estimated times of arrival at each geographic point; receiving offers from the provider parties; automatically coalescing the offers by screening to meet user preferences, and modifying and organizing into a format for uniform presentation to a user; presenting the coalesced offers to an operator of the mobile system; and automatically performing enterprise resource planning for a user-selected business transaction.

Anticipatory mobile system service brokering and resource planning from multiple providers

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Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Wojciech T Stryjewski