Service providing system, gateway, and server

• US 20090165115A1
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Shibata, Takeshi, Nakahara, Masahiko, Toumura, Kunihiko
• Application Number:
  US12/285,172
• Publication Number:
  US 20090165115A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data

Abstract

A large-scale content delivery system may be achieved, which may send a large amount of contents without intensive management of the contents in the server. In a service providing system where a client, a service gateway, and a server are connected to each other through a network, the client sends a first message to the server by way of the service gateway. The service gateway inquires a processing method of the first message from the client of the server by using a second message that includes a part of the first message content. The server replies to the inquiry of the processing method from the service gateway with a program that describes the processing method, and the service gateway processes the first message from the client on the basis of the received processing method.

Claims

1. A service providing system where a client, a service gateway, and a server are connected to each other through a network,

wherein the client sends a first message to the server through the service gateway,

the service gateway inquires a processing method of the first message from the client of the server by using a second message including the content of the first message,

the server replies to the inquiry from the service gateway with the processing method, and

the service gateway performs a process of the first message based on the received processing method.

2. The service providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the service gateway includes a storage unit which stores the processing method received from the server.

3. The service providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the service gateway includes a storage unit which stores a reply message to the client generated according to the received processing method.

4. The service providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the service gateway includes a storage unit which stores a part or the whole of the first message from the client that is analyzed according to the processing method.

5. The service providing system according to claim 4,

wherein the service gateway allocates a unique identifier to the data stored in the storage unit in the service gateway, and sends the identifier to the server.

6. The service providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the service gateway identifies the client with an authorization token included in the first message and determines whether to process a request by using the authorization token.

7. The service providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the server expresses the processing method as a group of templates for the reply messages to the client and generation logic for embedding a blank of the template.

8. The service providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the server includes generation logic that describes a method of acquiring information necessary to generate a reply message to the client from an external server as the processing method.

9. The service providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the server is a Web camera, and the processing method includes information for image fetch request to fetch an image from the Web camera.

10. A service gateway connected to a client and a server through a network, comprising:

a processing unit;

a storage unit; and

a network interface,

wherein the network interface receives a first message sent from the client to the server,

the processing unit inquires a processing method of the first message of the server by using a second message including the content of the first message, receives the processing method provided as a reply from the server, processes the first message based on the received processing method, and sends a generated reply message to the client.

11. The service gateway according to claim 10,

wherein the processing unit stores the processing method received from the server in the storage unit.

12. The service gateway according to claim 10,

wherein the processing unit stores the reply message in the storage unit.

13. The service gateway according to claim 10,

wherein the processing unit stores a part or the whole of the first message from the client that is analyzed according to the processing method in the storage unit.

14. The service gateway according to claim 10,

wherein the processing unit allocates a unique identifier to data stored in the storage unit and sends the identifier to the server.

15. The service gateway according to claim 10,

wherein the processing unit identifies the client with an authorization token included in the first message.

16. The service gateway according to claim 15,

wherein the processing unit determines whether to perform a process by using the authorization token of the client.

17. A server connected to a client via a service gateway through a network, comprising:

a processing unit;

a storage unit; and

a network interface,

wherein the network interface receives a second message including the content of a first message to inquire a processing method of the first message from the service gateway that has received the first message that is sent from the client to the server, and

the processing unit generates the processing method of the first message based on the second message.

18. The server according to claim 17,

wherein the processing unit groups the generated processing method together with templates for the reply message to the client and generation logic for embedding a blank of the template.

19. The server according to claim 17,

wherein the processing unit includes generation logic that describes a method of acquiring information necessary to generate the reply message to the client from an external server as the generated processing method.

20. The server according to claim 17,

wherein the processing unit determines whether or not the client gains access on the basis of an authorization token included in the second message.