System for invoking web services by means of SIP signaling

• US 20070208804A1
• Filed: 02/16/2007
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
• Original Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
• Inventors: Berna Fornies, Hector, Caudevilla Laliena, Guillermo, Machin Garcia, Angel, Sanclemente Abos, Luis
• Application Number:
  US11/707,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208804A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for consuming at least one Web service (2) provided by a provider device wherein said provider device is identified by an address or URI which is the SIP URI address. According to the invention, said Web services provider is discovered and located by means of initiating SIP sessions. In this system:

a user client (1) of the Web service generates a session initiation request indicating as the URI of the request the SIP URI of the provider and describing said session by means of SDP in which an interaction context is described to negotiate the consumption of said service, where said interaction context includes at least the URL from which the Web service can be invoked and a message exchange pattern MEP, said provider generates a session initiation response described by means of SDP including said interaction context proposed by the client or modifying it, such that if the Web services provider is registered in that SIP network, the client accesses the service using the SIP URI of the provider.

Claims

1. A system for consuming at least one Web service provided by a provider device wherein:

said provider device is identified by an address or URI which is the SIP URI address;

comprising said Web services provider device is discovered and located by means of initiating SIP sessions.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein in said system:

a user client of said Web service generates a session initiation request indicating as the URI of the request the SIP URI of the provider device and describing said session by means of SDP in which an interaction context is described to negotiate the consumption of said service, where said interaction context includes at least the URL from which the Web service can be invoked and a message exchange pattern MEP,

said provider generates a session initiation response described by means of SDP including said interaction context proposed by the client or modifying it, such that if the Web services provider is registered in that SIP network, the user client accesses the service using the SIP URI of the provider device.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein if the Web services provider is not registered in that SIP network, the SIP network informs the user client that the provider is not available.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein in addition to the URL from which the Web service can be invoked and the message exchange pattern, said interaction context includes:

protocol used to access the operation, network connection, service and operation.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein for the operation the same communication channel is used for the request message and the response message, being a synchronous interaction.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein for the same operation context client and provider asynchronously exchange a set of messages.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein for the operation the client sends a message after which the session is interrupted, being an asynchronous interaction.