US 9,961,131 B2 · Enhanced reliability for client-based web services

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for providing enhanced reliability for web services. In an implementation, a proxy service supports web services provided by a client application to at least an online service. While the client application is temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service monitors for web services activity to occur in association with the web services provided by the client application to at least the online service. In response to the client application reconnecting to the proxy service after having been temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service communicates activity information to the client application indicative at least of whether or not to query the online service with respect to the web services activity.

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Dependent claims

A method of operating a proxy service to support web services provided by a client application to at least an online service, wherein the client application provides a server-side of the web services to the online service, the method comprising:

serving as a proxy for the server-side of the web services;
while the client application is temporarily unavailable to the proxy service, monitoring for web services activity to occur in association with the web services provided by the client application to at least the online service;
and
in response to the client application becoming available to the proxy service after having been temporarily unavailable to the proxy service, communicating activity information to the client application indicative at least of whether or not to query the online service with respect to the web services activity.

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An apparatus comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;
a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media;
and
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for facilitating web services interaction between a client application and an online service, wherein the client application provides a server-side of the web services to the online service, and wherein the program instructions comprise:
a web service running in the client application that, when executed by the processing system, directs the processing system to at least:
expose a plurality of components in the client application to a plurality of sub-services in the online service through a proxy service for a server-side of the web services;
in response to activity information received from the proxy service upon the web service reconnecting to the proxy service after being temporarily disconnected, prompt each component of the plurality of components to poll a corresponding service of the plurality of sub-services if the activity information indicates that web services activity was missed for the component while the web service was temporarily disconnected;
and
the plurality of components, wherein each of the plurality of components, when executed by the processing system, directs the processing system to initiate polling of a corresponding one of the plurality of sub-services for at least a portion of the web services activity that was missed while the web service was temporarily disconnected.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

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