SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INVOKING APPLICATION COMMANDS WITH WEB SERVICE CALLS

• US 20140101290A1
• Filed: 10/10/2012
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Johnston, Eugene E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,026,587 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/83 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A method for invoking an application command includes generating a web service request. The web service request includes an extensible markup language (XML) document in the body of the web service request. The XML document includes information indicating an application command. The method further includes transmitting the web service request to a server using a network communication protocol.

Claims

1. A method for invoking an application command, the method comprising:

generating a web service request comprising an extensible markup language (XML) document in the body of the web service request, the XML document comprising information indicating an application command; and

transmitting the web service request to a server using a network communication protocol.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the network communication protocol comprises hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) or HTTP over SSL/TLS (HTTPS).

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the XML document further comprises:

information indicating a recipient;

a message;

an inquiry for the recipient; and

a response to be selected by the recipient.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the web service request further comprises:

a HTTP method;

a user name; and

a password.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a web service response comprising an XML document as the body of the response.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the web service request is generated by calling an application programming interface (API) method with parameters comprising:

an HTTP method;

a uniform resource identifier (URI);

a user name;

a password;

the XML document; and

a reply XML document;

7. A method for invoking an application command, the method comprising:

generating a web service request;

transmitting the web service request to a server using a network communication protocol; and

retrieving a web service response comprising an XML document in the body of the response.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the network communication protocol comprises hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) or HTTP over SSL/TLS (HTTPS).

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the web service request is generated by calling an application programming interface (API) method with parameters comprising:

an HTTP method;

a uniform resource identifier (URI);

a user name;

a password;

the XML document; and

a reply XML document;

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the XML document comprises a notification comprising:

information identifying the notification; and

a URI of a resource representing attributes of the notification.

11. A computer based system for invoking an application command, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory comprising logic operable to;

generate a web service request comprising an XML document in the body of the web service request, the XML document comprising information indicating an application command; and

transmit the web service request to a server using a network communication protocol.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the network communication protocol comprises hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) or HTTP over SSL/TLS (HTTPS).

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the XML document further comprises:

information indicating a recipient;

a message;

an inquiry for the recipient; and

a response to be selected by the recipient.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the web service request further comprises:

a HTTP method;

a user name; and

a password.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the logic is further operable to retrieve a web service response comprising an XML document as the body of the response.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the logic is further operable to call an application programming interface (API) method with parameters to generate the web service request, the parameters comprising:

an HTTP method;

a uniform resource identifier (URI);

a user name;

a password;

the XML document; and

a reply XML document;

17. A computer based system for invoking an application command, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory comprising logic operable to;

generate a web service request;

transmit the web service request to a server using a network communication protocol; and

retrieve a web service response comprising an XML document as the body of the response.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the network communication protocol comprises hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) or HTTP over SSL/TLS (HTTPS).

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the web service request is generated by calling an application programming interface (API) method with parameters comprising:

an HTTP method;

a uniform resource identifier (URI);

a user name;

a password;

the XML document; and

a reply XML document;

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the XML document comprises a notification comprising:

information identifying the notification; and

a URI of a resource representing attributes of the notification.