STATE REPLICATION

• US 20080082652A1
• Filed: 09/28/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Cheng, Lili, Meijer, Henricus Johannes Maria, Ozzie, Raymond E., Flake, Gary W., Larus, James R., Gounares, Alexander G., Glasser, Daniel S., Snyder, Ira L., Mital, Amit, Mishra, Debi P., Dani, Nishant V., Thekkath, Chandramohan A., Gates, William H.
• Granted Patent: US 7,680,908 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by several clients without user perception of degraded computing performance as compared to conventional systems/techniques due to improved connectivity and mitigated latencies. A replication component can generate replicas of states associated with requested services. Further, the replicas can facilitate seamlessly interacting with the third party service provider (e.g., while transitioning between client devices). Additionally, by providing replicas of the state related information, differing third party service providers can effectuate services based upon a request from a client without regenerating the state.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates replicating state associated with a third party service provider, comprising:

a service component that effectuates performing a service supported by the third party service provider in response to a request obtained from a first client device; and

a replication component that generates a replica of a state associated with the service, the replica facilitates seamlessly interacting with the third party service provider.

2. The system of claim 1, the replication component yields the replica of the state of a computational task.

3. The system of claim 2, the computational task utilizes the replica of its own state.

4. The system of claim 1, the replication component marks a portion of the state to be replicated and generates the replica that corresponds to the portion.

5. The system of claim 1, the replication component enables sharing a portion of the generated replica.

6. The system of claim 1, the replication component generates the replica of the state a plurality of times.

7. The system of claim 1, the replication component replicates a distributed state split between the first client device and at least one disparate client device.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a migration component that shifts performance of computational tasks performed by the first client device to a second client device based at least in part by transferring the state between the first client device and the second client device via utilizing the replica.

9. The system of claim 8, the migration component determines a distribution between computational tasks performed client-side with the second client device and computational tasks performed by the third party service provider.

10. The system of claim 8, the migration component generates a suggestion to transition to the second client device.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rendering component that outputs data utilized to yield per client device rendering of content.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising an archive component that retains data provided to the service component and generated by the service component, the data being aggregated from the replicated state of a plurality of services.

13. The system of claim 1, the replica enables resuming the state.

14. A method that facilitates migrating computational tasks performed in connection with a third party service provider, comprising:

generating a replica of a state associated with a service supported by the third party service provider; and

migrating computational tasks associated with the service by employing the replica of the state to provide state continuity.

15. The method of claim 14, generating the replica further comprises evaluating data obtained by the third party service provider from one or more client devices requesting the service and data related to the service effectuated by the third party service provider.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising inferring whether to migrate the computational tasks based upon one or more of a user location, a permission, characteristics of the disparate client devices, and an upcoming event.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting a suggestion to migrate the computational tasks and effectuating the transition based upon obtained feedback.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising rendering a tailored user interface based upon characteristics of a client utilized for presentation.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising accessing a consistent set of data by utilizing the replica of the state.

20. A system that facilitates replicating a state associated with at least one of a client, a user, a service, and an application, comprising:

means for receiving a request to perform a service supported by a third party service provider from a client device;

means for performing the requested service; and

means for generating a replica of a state associated with the client device while performing the service.