System and method for communication between rich internet applications

• US 10,430,491 B1
• Filed: 05/30/2008
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ON24, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ON24, Inc.
• Inventors: Rojas, Brent, Joshi, Jaimini, Kheny, Mahesh
• Primary Examiner(s): Akovac, Ryan J
• Application Number:
  US12/130,310
• Time in Patent Office: 4,141 Days
• Field of Search: 709218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating between applications. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a system for communicating between applications where the system includes a Rich Internet Application and a control room within a server system The Rich Internet Application broadcasts information to the control room and the control room broadcasts the information to applications connected to the system. Moreover the Rich Internet Application also transmits low priority information to a web application for delayed logging and processing.

Claims

1. A system for communicating between applications, comprising:

a first computing device coupled to a server system through a first communication link, the first computing device running one or more Rich Internet Applications and a chat application separate from the one or more Rich Internet Applications;

a web application coupled to the one or more Rich Internet Applications over a second communication link;

wherein the server system comprises a chat room that communicates with a chat application running on the first computing device, at least one presence room that communicates with the one or more Rich Internet Applications, and a control room that receives an authentication from each of the one or more Rich Internet Applications, receives a set of real time data independent of user input from each authenticated Rich Internet Application, communicates with the chat room and the presence room, and broadcasts the set of real time data for each authenticated Rich Internet Application to each of the other one or more Rich Internet Applications;

wherein the web application registers with the chat room and the presence room via the control room, and then periodically receives a set of low priority logging data directly from the one or more Rich Internet Applications over the second communication link; and

wherein the one or more Rich Internet Applications have a communication interaction with the server system using the first communication link.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the server system comprises a single processor.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the server system comprises an eJabberD server network.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the web application comprises a logger and an application server queue.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the logger comprises an erlang logger.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein the web application communicates with an application server via an HTTP POST mechanism.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the application server queue comprises a JMS queue.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the Rich Internet Application communicates with the presence room using XMPP presence messages.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the XMPP presence messages define locations within a virtual show.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the first computing device is personal computer.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the first computing device is phone.

12. A method of communicating between applications comprising:

authenticating a rich internet application operating on a first computer, where the application is authenticated with a server system;

authenticating a web application with the server system;

broadcasting a first set of priority data from the authenticated rich internet application to a control room within the server system, wherein the broadcasting occurs in real time upon creation of the first set of priority data;

communicating a subset of data from the control room with a chat room and a presence room in the server system;

broadcasting a second set of priority data from the control room to the rich internet application, wherein the broadcasting the second set of priority data occurs in real time upon receipt of the second set of priority data by the control room;

broadcasting a set of chat data, separate from the first and second sets of priority data, from a chat application operating on the first computer to a chat room operating within the server system, wherein the chat application is separate from the rich internet application and

transmitting a set of low priority data from the rich internet application directly to the web application for logging.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the server system comprises more than one server computer.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the server system comprises a jabber network.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising broadcasting a set of presentation data from the control room to the rich internet application.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising displaying the set of presentation data within a virtual show on a client that is running the rich internet application.