Distributed cache system

• US 8,175,233 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2005
• Issued: 05/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arlington Technologies, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Inventors: Vaghar, Shahriar, Wang, Yang, Skakkebaek, Jens
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsang, Fan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Teshale, Akelaw
• Application Number:
  US11/053,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20060177023A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,647 Days
• Field of Search: 379/67.1, 379/88.13, 379/265.09, 379/88.14, 379/88.16, 379/88.22, 379/88.25, 379/88.26, 379/88.27, 379/88.28, 709/201, 709/206
• US Class Current: 379/88.28
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4509 Unified messaging with single point of access to voicemail and other mail or messaging systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4211 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53333 Message receiving aspects

Abstract

An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted on a messaging server of a network. The interface module pulls various user information from the messaging server, including information relevant to at least the network that includes the messaging server. A cache couples to the communication server and to the interface module to hold information from the communication server and/or the user information pulled from messaging server. The interface module directs a message from the messaging server and/or the cache to at least one device on the networks using the user information.

Claims

1. A cache server comprising:

a distributed cache system (DCS) protocol server that couples to a local cache system that caches data;

a server-to-server communication system (SSCS) that couples the DCS protocol server to a remote cache system, the SSCS transferring a first type of information between the remote cache system and the DCS protocol server, wherein the first type of information is associated with identification information of a cached message;

a fetching server that couples the DCS protocol server to the remote cache system, the fetching server transferring a second type of information between the remote cache system and the DCS protocol server, wherein the second type of information are contents of the cached message; and

a DCS skeleton that couples the DCS protocol server to a messaging communication server, the DCS skeleton transferring at least one of the first type and second type of information between the DCS protocol server and the communication server.

2. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the SSCS couples the DCS protocol server

to a remote DCS protocol server of a remote cache.

3. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the fetching server couples the DCS protocol server to a remote cache system of the remote cache using a web server associated with the remote cache.

4. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the DCS skeleton couples the DCS protocol server to a message application.

5. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the DCS protocol server controls protocols for communications with the SSCS, the fetching server, and the DCS skeleton.

6. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the first type of information includes at least one of a list of messages and a request for the list of messages.

7. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the second type of information includes at least one of message contents and a request for the message contents.

8. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the local cache system includes at least one of a file system and a management system that manages information held in the file system.

9. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the SSCS includes a local communication server that couples the DCS protocol server to a remote inter-node protocol server of the remote cache system.

10. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the SSCS includes a local inter-node protocol server that couples the local cache system to an inter-node protocol server of a second remote cache system.

11. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the fetching server couples the DCS protocol server to a remote management system of the remote cache system via at least one web server.

12. The cache server of claim 1, wherein the fetching server includes a web server that couples the management system to a remote DCS protocol server of at least one remote cache system.

13. A system comprising:

a first cache system coupled to a first server to transfer data with the first server;

a second cache system coupled with a second server to transfer data with the second server; and

a communication system that couples the first cache system and the second cache system to transfer data between the first cache system and the second cache system, wherein the communication system includes a first coupling that transfers a first type of information and a second coupling that transfers a second type of information, wherein the first type of information is associated with identification information of a cached message, and wherein the second type of information are contents of the cached message.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the first coupling couples a first protocol system of the first cache system to a second protocol system of the second cache system, wherein the first and second protocol systems control communication protocols.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the first coupling includes a first communication server that couples the first protocol system to a remote inter-node protocol server of the second cache system.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the first coupling includes a second communication server that couples the second protocol system to a first inter-node protocol server of the first cache system.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the second coupling includes at least one web server that couples at least one of the first protocol system to the second cache system and the second protocol system to the first cache system.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the first cache system and the second cache system couple to a plurality of applications of a messaging system.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the first type of information includes at least one of a list of messages and a request for the list of messages.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the second type of information includes at least one of message contents and a request for the message contents.

21. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the first cache system and the second cache system includes a local cache store, the local cache store including at least one of a file system and a management system that manages information held in the file system.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein the data is cached as requested by at least one of the first server and the second server.

23. The system of claim 13, wherein the data is replicated in at least one of the first cache system and the second cache system in advance of performance of operations that use the data.

24. A system comprising:

at least one messaging communication server (MCS); and

a cache system that couples to the MCS, the cache system including at least one of a local cache store and a distributed cache store, the cache system further including a communication system that couples to transfer data among the MCS and the cache system, the communication system including a first coupling that transfers a first type of information that includes at least one of a list of messages and a request for the list of messages, the communication system including a second coupling that transfers a second type of information that includes at least one of message contents and a request for the message contents, wherein the first type of information is associated with identification information of a cached message, and wherein the second type of information are contents of the cached message.