Route a service

• US 9,692,806 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hochmuth, Roland M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coulter, Kenneth R
• Application Number:
  US13/994,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20130262555A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,384 Days
• Field of Search: 709238-243, 709201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5044 considering hardware capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Example implementation relate to routing a service. In one example, routing a service can employ a desktop device in communication with a portable device, the desktop device including an application compatible with the portable device, a virtual environment to run the application on the desktop device, a transceiver to communicate with the portable device, and a router to maintain a data structure that tracks local services on the desktop computer and remote services on the portable device, and invoke a service request by the application from at least one of a local framework on the first device and a remote framework to run the service on the portable device based on the data structure.

Claims

1. A desktop device in communication with a portable device, the desktop device comprising:

an application compatible with the portable device, wherein the application is written to natively execute on hardware and an operating system of the portable device;

a virtual environment to run the application written to natively execute on the hardware and the operating system of the portable device on the desktop device;

a transceiver to communicate with the portable device; and

a router to;

maintain a data structure that tracks local services on the desktop device and remote services on the portable device; and

invoke a service request by the application from at least one of a local framework on the first device and a remote framework to run a service on the portable device based on the data structure, wherein when the requested service is available on the desktop device and the portable device, an ordered preference is used to determine whether to send the service request to the desktop device or the portable device.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the application is transferred from the portable device to the desktop device when the application requests to invoke a service.

3. The device of claim 1, further comprising a notification service to output an error indication if the local framework was invoked and was not able to provide the service.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising a setting to configure the router to determine whether to invoke the requested service on the first device or the portable device, wherein the determination is based on the data structure and the ordered preference.

5. The device of claim 1, further comprising logic for the portable device to run the application.

6. The device of claim 1, further comprising a second application incompatible with the portable device and executing on the desktop device, wherein the router invokes the service using the second application.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the virtual environment is a java script virtual machine to run at least one of a java script application, a hypertext markup language application, and a CSS application.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the service is hardware that provides data to the application.

9. The desktop device of claim 1, wherein the portable device comprises a phone or a tablet.

10. A method of routing a service request comprising:

executing an application within a virtual environment on a desktop device, wherein the application requests a service, and wherein the application is written to natively execute on hardware and an operating system of a portable device;

determining where to invoke the service based on a data structure maintained by a router of the desktop device that tracks local services on the desktop computer and remote services on the portable device, wherein an ordered preference stored on the router is used to determine whether to invoke the service on the desktop device or the portable device when the service is available on the desktop device and the portable device;

routing the service request to a local framework on the desktop device if it is determined to invoke the service on the local framework; and

routing the service request to a remote framework on the portable device if it is determined to invoke the service on the portable device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein to invoke the service on the local framework is determined if the service is available on the desktop device.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising defining where the service is invoked.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising notifying the router that the service is not available.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code that when executed causes a processor on a desktop device to:

execute an application within a virtual environment on the desktop device, wherein the application is written to natively execute on hardware and an operating system of a portable device;

invoke a service requested by the application;

determine where to invoke the service based on a data structure maintained by a router of the desktop device that tracks local services on the desktop computer and remote services on the portable device, wherein an ordered preference stored on the router is used to determine whether to invoke the service on the desktop device or the portable device when the service is available on the desktop device and the portable device;

route the service to a local framework on the desktop device if it is determined to invoke the service on the local framework; and

route the service to a remote framework on the portable device if it is determined to invoke the service on the portable device.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 further comprising code that if executed causes a processor to:

set where the service is invoked.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 further comprising code that if executed causes a processor to:

notify the router that the service is not available.