Conversion of hierarchical infoset type data to binary data

• US 8,812,643 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2011
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Maine, Stephen Jared, Coulson, Michael J., Christensen, Erik B., Vishwanath, Tirunelveli R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Daftuar, Saket K
• Application Number:
  US13/176,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20110264702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,141 Days
• Field of Search: 709/221, 709229-230, 709/246, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 709/220, 709/222, 709/223, 709/224, 709/225, 709/226, 709/227, 709/228, 709/248, 707/793, 707/E17.127, 707/790, 707/791, 707/792, 707/794, 707/795, 707/796, 707/802, 707/803, 707/804, 707/805, 707/806, 707/807, 707/808, 707/809, 707/810, 707/811, 707/812, 707/E17.128, 707/E17.129, 707/E17.13, 707/E17.131, 707/E17.132, 707/E17.133, 707/E17.134, 707/E17.143, 713/150, 713/151, 713/152, 713/200, 713/201
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

Encoding and/or decoding of messages. On the encoding end, a composite encoder encodes message from an internal format that is used by internal system components into an external format. However, the composite encoder may encode the outgoing messages into different external formats on a per-message basis. For incoming message, a composite decoder decodes incoming messages from any one of a plurality of external formats into the internal format also on a per-message basis. A per-message report mechanism permits internal system components and the encoding/decoding components to communicate information regarding the encoding or decoding on a per message basis. XML messages can be converted automatically into Binary messages.

Claims

1. A computer storage device having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform the following:

an act of receiving a request from an internal processing component to write a hierarchical type data structure that is structured in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) or other Infoset hierarchical data format onto a network communication channel, wherein the internal processing component is an XML or other Infoset hierarchical type processor;

evaluating and determining a type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure and,

when the type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is a first type of content, an act determining that the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is to be converted into an equivalent binary data structure prior to being written onto the network communication channel rather than writing the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure to the network communication channel as designated by the XML or other Infoset hierarchical type of the internal processing component, and

when the type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is a second type of content that is different from the first type of content, an act determining that the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is to be converted into a data structure of a type other than said equivalent binary data structure prior to being written onto the network communication channel;

an act of automatically transforming the hierarchical data structure into the determined equivalent binary data or the determined data structure of a type other than said equivalent binary data structure, even though not requested by the XML or other Infoset type processing component and thereby overriding default content type information of the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data format; and

an act of writing the transformed hierarchical data structure onto the network communication channel.

2. The computer program product recited in claim 1, wherein the request is received at a composite encoder.

3. The computer program product recited in claim 1, wherein the hierarchical type data structure is structured in an XML format.

4. The computer program product recited in claim 1, wherein the request is received on a per message basis for each of a plurality of messages.

5. A method for converting hierarchical data to binary data, comprising:

at a computing system having at least one processor and at least one computer readable medium, using the at least one processor to execute computer-executable instructions stored on the computer readable medium, thereby causing the computing system to;

process a request from an internal processing component to write a hierarchical type data structure that is structured in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) or other Infoset hierarchical data format onto a network communication channel, wherein the internal processing component is an XML or other Infoset hierarchical type processing component;

evaluate and determine a type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure and,

when the type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is a first type of content, determine that the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is to be converted into an equivalent binary data structure prior to being written onto the network communication channel rather than writing the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure to the network communication channel as designated by the XML or other Infoset hierarchical type of the internal processing component, and

when the type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is a second type of content that is different from the first type of content, an act determining that the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is to be converted into a data structure of a type other than said equivalent binary data structure prior to being written onto the network communication channel;

automatically transform the hierarchical data structure into the determined equivalent binary data or the determined data structure of a type other than said equivalent binary data structure, even though not requested by the XML or other Infoset type processing component and thereby overriding default content type information of the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data format; and

encode the transformed hierarchical data structure onto the network communication channel.

6. The method recited in claim 5, wherein the request is sent from an internal system component to a composite encoder.

7. The method recited in claim 5, wherein the hierarchical type data structure is structured in an XML format.

8. The method recited in claim 5, wherein the request is specific to a particular message to be sent onto the network communication channel.

9. A computing system, comprising:

an internal Infoset processing component capable of processing XML or other Infoset data;

a per message report mechanism; and

a composite encoder configured to receive Infoset data for transmission over a network communication channel through the network access module, the composite encoder having a plurality of different encoders configured to encode received data structures into different types of equivalent data structures based at least in part on a determined type of content contained in the received data structures, wherein the composite encoder is configured to;

process a request from the internal Infoset processing component to write a hierarchical type data structure that is structured in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) or other Infoset hierarchical data format onto a network communication channel;

evaluate and determine a type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure and,

when the type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is a first type of content, determine that the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is to be converted into an equivalent binary data structure prior to being written onto the network communication channel by a first encoder in the plurality of different encoders rather than writing the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure to the network communication channel as designated by the XML or other Infoset hierarchical type of the internal Infoset processing component, and

when the type of content contained in the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is a second type of content that is different from the first type of content, an act determining that the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data structure is to be converted into a data structure of a type other than said equivalent binary data structure prior to being written onto the network communication channel;

automatically transform the hierarchical data structure into the determined equivalent binary data or the determined data structure of a type other than said equivalent binary data structure, by the first encoder even though not specifically requested by the internal Infoset processing component and thereby overriding default content type information of the XML or other Infoset hierarchical data format; and

write the transformed hierarchical data structure onto the network communication channel.

10. The computing system recited in claim 9, wherein the request is sent from an internal system component to a composite encoder.

11. The computing system recited in claim 9, wherein the hierarchical type data structure is structured in an XML format.

12. The computing system recited in claim 9, wherein the request is received on a per message basis for each of a plurality of messages and such that the request is specific to a particular message to be written onto the network communication channel.