US 10,761,685 B2 · Intelligent REST client for operating a data storage system

Abstract

Improved systems, methods, and techniques for generating representational state transfer (REST) requests from a client computer to a server computer. The disclosed techniques employ a REST application programming interface (also referred to as the “RESTful API”) for use in receiving the REST requests at the server computer from the client computer, and providing REST responses from the server computer to the client computer. The disclosed techniques further employ an intelligent REST client configured as a webpage (also referred to as the “intelligent REST client webpage”) that can be accessed by a browser running on the client computer, and transmitted or otherwise served by the server computer for display on the browser of the client computer. The intelligent REST client webpage may be employed by a user of the client computer for efficiently interacting with the RESTful API of the server computer.

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Dependent claims

A system for generating a representational state transfer (REST) request, comprising:

a data storage system including a RESTful application programming interface (RESTful API);
and
a client host computer running a browser application,
wherein the data storage system is configured and arranged to:
serve an intelligent REST client webpage to the client host computer for display on the browser application,
wherein, having been served to the client host computer, the intelligent REST client webpage is configured and arranged to:
automatically send, to the data storage system without requiring a manual user input, a types-feed request for information associated with a particular resource on the data storage system, and
wherein the data storage system is further configured and arranged to:
receive, at the RESTful API, the types-feed request from the intelligent REST client webpage;
in response to the types-feed request, send, via the RESTful API, a types-feed response to the intelligent REST client webpage, the types-feed response containing the information associated with the particular resource;
and
receive, at the RESTful API, the REST request from the intelligent REST client webpage, the REST request containing at least some of the information sent to the intelligent REST client webpage in the types-feed response.

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A method of generating a representational state transfer (REST) request to a data storage system using a browser running on a client host computer, the method comprising:

serving an intelligent REST client webpage from the data storage system to the client host computer, the intelligent REST client webpage being displayable on the browser running on the client host computer, the data storage system including a RESTful application programming interface (RESTful API);
having served the intelligent REST client webpage to the client host computer, automatically sending, by the intelligent REST client webpage to the data storage system without requiring a manual user input, a types-feed request for information associated with a particular resource on the data storage system;
receiving, at the RESTful API, the types-feed request from the intelligent REST client webpage;
in response to the types-feed request, sending, via the RESTful API, a types-feed response to the intelligent REST client webpage, the types-feed response containing the information associated with the resource;
and
receiving, at the RESTful API, the REST request from the intelligent REST client webpage, the REST request containing at least some of the information sent to the intelligent REST client webpage in the types-feed response.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Intelligent REST client for operating a data storage system

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