US 10,482,518 B2Granted

HTTP parallel processing router

AssigneeWalmart Apollo, LLC

InventorJohn R. Frerking

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Abstract

According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a router having a first I/O terminal and a second I/O terminal, wherein the first I/O terminal is configured to be in communication with at least one client via a first network, wherein the second I/O terminal is configured to be in communication with a plurality of remote servers via a second network, and wherein the router is configured to receive, at the first I/O terminal via the first network, a web services request from the at least one client, identify, based on the web services request from the at least one client, a group of the plurality of remote servers that are capable of fulfilling the web services request, and transmit, in parallel via the second I/O terminal and the second network, the received web services request to each one of the plurality of remote servers within the group.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A server comprising:

a router comprising an Input/Output (I/O) terminal;
wherein the router is configured to communicatively couple with at least one client;
wherein the I/O terminal of the router is configured to communicatively couple with a plurality of remote servers;
and
wherein the router is configured to:
receive a web services request from the at least one client;
identify, based on the web services request, at least two remote servers of the plurality of remote servers that are to fulfill at least a portion of the web services request;
and
transmit, in parallel via the I/O terminal, requests to fulfill respective portions of the received web services request to each of the at least two remote servers;
wherein the router is further configured to:
generate a first send web service request to be sent to a first remote server of the at least two remote servers, wherein the first send web service request comprises a first product identification information corresponding to a first product identified from the web service request;
generate a second send web service request to be sent to a second remote server of the at least two remote servers, wherein the second send web service request comprises a second product identification information corresponding to a second product identified from the web service request;
and
wherein the router, in transmitting the requests to fulfill the respective portions of the received web service request, is configured to transmit in parallel the first send web service request to the first remote server and the second send web service request to the second remote server.

11 more elements

A method of responding to web services requests comprising:

receiving, at a router, a web services request from at least one client;
identifying, based on the web services request, at least two remote servers of a plurality of remote servers that are to fulfill at least a portion of the request;
generating a first send web service request to be sent to a first remote server of the at least two remote servers, wherein the first send web service request comprises a first product identification information corresponding to a first product identified from the web service request;
generating a second send web service request to be sent to a second remote server of the at least two remote servers, wherein the second send web service request comprises a second product identification information corresponding to a second product identified from the web service request;
and
transmitting in parallel, from the router, requests to fulfill respective portions of the web services request to each of the at least two remote servers of the plurality of remote servers wherein the transmitting in parallel the requests to fulfill the respective portions of the web services request comprises transmitting in parallel the first send web service request to the first remote server and the second send web service request to the second remote server.

3 more elements

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed on a processor performs a method of responding to web services requests, the method comprising:

receiving, at the router, a web services request from at least one client;
identifying, based on the web services request, at least two remote servers of a plurality of remote servers that are to fulfill at least a portion of the request;
generating a first send web service request to be sent to a first remote server of the at least two remote servers, wherein the first send web service request comprises a first product identification information corresponding to a first product identified from the web service request;
generating a second send web service request to be sent to a second remote server of the at least two remote servers, wherein the second send web service request comprises a second product identification information corresponding to a second product identified from the web service request;
and
transmitting in parallel, with the router, requests to fulfill respective portions of the web services request to each of the at least two remote servers of the plurality of remote servers, wherein the transmitting in parallel the requests to fulfill the respective portions of the web services request comprises transmitting in parallel the first send web service request to the first remote server and the second send web service request to the second remote server.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/787,572Filed 18 Oct 2017 · continuation
Priority: 17 Oct 2012
Published: US 2018/0040048 A18 Feb 2018
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06Q 30/0623
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: by investigating goods or services
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 67/1095
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data…
H04L 67/51
Network services: discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Family

Application13/653,801Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Oct 2012
Application14/603,476Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jan 2015
US 8,972,526 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Mar 2015
Application15/347,395Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Nov 2016
US 9,525,719 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Dec 2016
US 2018/0040048 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Feb 2018
US 9,824,386 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0108596 A1Published application
US 2015/0134487 A1Published application
US 2017/0061514 A1Published application
US 10,482,518 B2This patent

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