Web application communication protocol
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAditya Bansod, Walter Hsueh, Chun Wong
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Abstract
A method and protocol for communication between a first computer and a second computer. The protocol includes a request from the first computer to the second computer including a function identifier for a function on the second computer and an argument for the function. The argument may be defined by a type for a function called by the function identifier. The protocol also includes a reply from the second computer to the first computer including the results of the function, with the reply defined as a script input for the first computer.
Claims20
A method of communicating between a client process and a server process in a distributed processing system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) issuing, by the client process, a function request to the server, the function request including a data string having a format defined by a type of a server function requested;
- (b) receiving, by the server process, the function call and performing the requested function on the string;
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- (c) issuing, by the server process, a response to the function request, the response being in a client side processing format defined by the object
A protocol for communication between a first computer and a second computer, comprising:
- a request from the first computer to the second computer including a function identifier for a function on the second computer and an argument for the function, the argument defined by a type for a function called by the function identifier;
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- a reply from the second computer to the first computer including the results of the function, the reply defined as a script input.
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