Leveraging presence service system and method for distributed web service delivery and deployment

• US 20070083627A1
• Filed: 10/07/2005
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Mohammed, Aziz, Sundaram, Vinaitheerthan
• Granted Patent: US 8,788,618 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1021 based on client or server locations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1023 based on a hash applied to IP addresses or costs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

A method is described herein for optimizing the delivery and deployment of web services to consumers by providing presence information (presence attributes) in addition to business/technical information (if needed) about different web service providers to the consumers so they can select a web service provider based on various important factors such as load, price, location, etc. . . of the web service. An enhanced web service registry and a presence system are also described herein.

Claims

1. A method for delivering and deploying a web service to a consumer, said method comprising the steps of:

providing business/technical information about a plurality of web service providers to said consumer; and

providing presence information about said web service providers to said consumer, wherein said consumer reviews the business/technical information and the presence information and selects one of the web service providers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

an enhanced service registry which has a presence functionality provides the business/technical information and the presence information to the consumer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

a service registry provides the business/technical information to the consumer; and

a presence system provides the presence information to the consumer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said presence information includes information about at least one of the following states:

availability of each web service provider;

current load on servers of each web service provider;

performance indicator of each web service provider;

location of each web service provider; and

/or

prices for services associated with each web service provider.

5. An enhanced web service registry, comprising:

a node capable of providing business/technical information about a plurality of web service providers to a consumer; and

said node includes a presence functionality and is capable of providing presence information about said web service providers to said consumer, wherein said consumer reviews the business/technical information and the presence information and selects one of the web service providers.

6. The enhanced web service registry of claim 5, wherein said node is a distributed node.

7. The enhanced web service registry of claim 5, wherein said presence information is associated with at least one of the following states:

availability of each web service provider;

current load on servers of each web service provider;

performance indicator of each web service provider;

location of each web service provider; and

/or prices for services associated with each web service provider.

8. A presence system, comprising:

a presence server that collects presence information about one or more states of a plurality of web service providers, and then publishes at least a portion of that presence information to a consumer.

9. The presence system of claim 8, further comprising:

a rules engine that applies preference rules/policies to the collected presence information to determine which if any of the collected presence information is to be published to said consumer.

10. The presence system of claim 9, wherein each web service provider establishes their own preference rules/policies.

11. The presence system of claim 8, wherein said consumer subscribes with said presence server to receive the presence information of the web service providers.

12. The presence system of claim 8, wherein said presence information includes information about at least one of the following states:

availability of each web service provider;

current load on servers of each web service provider;

performance indicator of each web service provider;

location of each web service provider; and

/or prices for services associated with each web service provider.

13. The presence system of claim 8, wherein said presence server is a SIP/SIMPLE presence server.

14. The presence system of claim 8, wherein said presence server is a JABBER presence server.

15. The presence system of claim 8, wherein said consumer also obtains business/technical information about the web service providers from a web service registry and uses the business/technical information and the presence information to help select one of the web service provider.

16. The presence system of claim 15, wherein said web service registry is a UDDI web service registry.