US 10,097,624 B1Granted

Systems and methods for distributed installation of API and plugins

AssigneeKong Inc.

InventorsMarco Palladino, Augusto Marietti

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Abstract

Disclosed embodiments are directed at systems, methods, and architecture for providing microservices and a plurality of APIs to requesting clients. The architecture is a distributed cluster of gateway nodes that jointly provide microservices and the plurality of APIs. Providing the APIs includes providing a plurality of plugins that implement the APIs. As a result of a distributed architecture, the task of API management can be distributed across a cluster of gateway nodes. The gateway nodes effectively become the entry point for every API-related request. Some embodiments of the disclosed technology describe an auto-documentation plugin that can automatically generate documentation for an API by monitoring, parsing, and sniffing requests/responses to/from the API.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A method for securing, managing, and extending functionalities of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) comprising:

receiving, by a first gateway node, a request for installing a particular API or plugin, the first gateway node is configured to respond to API requests from a first set of clients communicating with a network and store and execute a set of APIs and plugins associated therewith, wherein the particular API or plugin is not included in the set of APIs and plugins;
installing and configuring, by the first gateway node, software code associated with the particular API or plugin;
retrieving, by a second gateway node, the software code associated with the particular API or plugin and a set of configuration data associated with the particular API or plugin from the first gateway node, wherein the second gateway node configured to respond to API requests from a second set of clients communicating with the network;
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installing and configuring, by the second gateway node, the particular API or plugin using the retrieved software code and the set of configuration data.

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Facts

Application: 15/899,529Filed 20 Feb 2018 · continuation
Priority: 28 Jul 2017
Granted: 9 Oct 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
H04L 67/56
Network services: provisioning of proxy services
H04L 63/08
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for authentication of entities
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]