System and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries

• US 8,990,244 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2013
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bao, Zhendong, Shaouy, William P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coby, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US14/030,294
• Publication Number:
  US 20140019477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: 707/705, 707/722, 707/736, 707/758, 707/759, 707/760, 707/769, 707/770, 707/771
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries on a consumer'"'"'s machine and, more particularly, to a system and method of sensing (discovering) service needs on a consumer'"'"'s machine using a resident Daemon, and responding to the service discoveries using an extension of UDDI. The method comprises receiving a keyword from a local machine, locating a service associated with the keyword, and notifying the local machine about the service that matches the keyword.

Claims

1. A method for deploying an application for discovering and providing consumer services in a computing environment, comprising:

receiving, by a third party computing device, a keyword from a daemon residing on a local machine; and

providing, by the third party computing device, service information of a first service machine of a plurality of service machines to the local machine, wherein;

the keyword matches the provided service information matches to a keyword list maintained by the third party computing device; and

the third party computing device is external to the local machine and provides a bridge between the local machine and the plurality of service machines.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing comprises searching for a match of the keyword in the keyword list.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising indexing the keyword prior to the searching for the match.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising maintaining, by the third party computing device, the keyword list in a Central Service Discovery Program (CSDP) that is an extension to a Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI).

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the maintaining comprises maintaining a plurality of keyword lists corresponding to one or more service groups connected to the CSDP.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing comprises:

periodically polling the keyword list; and

determining new matches with the keyword.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the keyword to the first service machine.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the providing the keyword comprises providing the keyword to the first service machine after a predetermined number of the same keyword is received from the daemon.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing the service information comprises providing connection information for the first service machine to the local machine.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the keyword is found by the daemon on the local machine during a periodic searching of the local machine for keywords contained in a master keyword list.

11. A system comprising:

a server providing a bridge between a client machine and a plurality of service machines, the server being configured to provide service information of a first service machine of the plurality of service machines to the client machine,

wherein the service information matches a keyword received from a daemon at the client machine to a keyword list maintained by the server.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the server is configured to search for a match of the keyword in the keyword list.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the server is configured to index the keyword prior to the searching for the match.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the server includes a Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) and Central Service Discovery Program (CSDP).

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the server is configured to provide the keyword list via the UDDI.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the server is configured to maintain a plurality of keyword lists corresponding to one or more service groups.

17. The system claim 11, wherein the server is configured to:

periodically poll the keyword list; and

determine new matches with the keyword.

18. The system claim 11, wherein the server is configured to provide the keyword to the first service machine.

19. The system claim 18, wherein the server is configured to provide the keyword to the first service machine after a predetermined number of the same keyword is received from the daemon.

20. The system claim 11, wherein the server is configured to provide connection information for the first service machine to the client machine.