NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE DATABASE OF REMOTE SERVICES

• US 20070081550A1
• Filed: 12/08/2006
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Moore, James
• Granted Patent: US 8,316,005 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/462
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5045 Making service definitions prior to deployment
• 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 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

The systems, methods, means, and computer program products disclosed herein provide a framework and tools for creating composite services from the array of services available as distributed, loosely structured, ad hoc, remote programming interfaces on the Internet. The framework includes metaservices for coordinating the execution of multiple services in a composite service, and also provides core services such as database management, security, financial transactions, media conversion, and so forth, to provide greater design latitude in the creation of new composite services from existing Internet content and services. The framework may be deployed to create new services and programming interfaces, or to deploy independent web applications constructed from available services.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A system comprising:

a network;

a database coupled in a communicating relationship with the network, the database storing one or more characteristics of a plurality of remote services, each remote service hosted at a remote location on the network, and each remote service accessible through an application programming interface, the one or more characteristics including at least a network location and a programming interface specification for each one of the plurality of remote services, the database including a web interface for structured searching of the one or more characteristics; and

a server associated with the database that provides at least one core service for creating a composite service from two or more of the plurality of remote services and expressing the composite service in an outlining grammar.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising a server associated with the database that provides at least one metaservice.

95. The system of claim 17 wherein the network includes the Internet.

96. The system of claim 17 wherein the network includes the World Wide Web.

97. The system of claim 17 wherein the network includes a network that interconnects the database with the Internet.

98. The system of claim 17 wherein at least one of the programming interface specifications specifies an RSS input.

99. The system of claim 17 wherein at least one of the programming interface specifications specifies an RSS output.

100. The system of claim 17 wherein the web interface includes a graphical user interface for interconnecting a plurality of the remote services in a composite service.

101. The system of claim 100 wherein the web interface provides a tool for storing one or more characteristics of the composite service in the database.

102. The system of claim 100 wherein the composite service is stored in the database for discovery through the web interface for structured searching.

103. The system of claim 17 further comprising a spider facility for discovering remote services on the network.

19-94. -94. (canceled)

104. A system comprising:

a database coupled in a communicating relationship with a network, the database storing one or more characteristics of a plurality of remote services, each remote service hosted at a remote location on the network, and each remote service accessible through an application programming interface, the one or more characteristics including at least a network location and a programming interface specification for each one of the plurality of remote services, the database including a web interface for structured searching of the one or more characteristics; and

a server associated with the database that provides at least one core service for creating a composite service from two or more of the plurality of remote services and expressing the composite service in an outlining grammar.

105. The system of claim 104 further comprising a spider facility that searches for remote services on the network.

106. The system of claim 104 wherein the network includes the Internet.

107. The system of claim 104 wherein the network includes the World Wide Web.

108. The system of claim 104 wherein at least one of the programming interface specifications specifies an RSS input.

109. The system of claim 104 wherein at least one of the programming interface specifications specifies an RSS input.

110. The system of claim 104 wherein the database is publicly accessible, the system further comprising at least one tool for creating a composite service from a plurality of the remote services, and for publishing the composite service in the database.

111. The system of claim 110 wherein the composite service is characterized using an outlining grammar.

112. The system of claim 111 wherein the outlining grammar is OPML.