Scalable notification delivery for networked computing environments

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11595248-B2
Application number	US-202017129999-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2020
Priority date	Dec 22, 2020
Publication date	Feb 28, 2023
Grant date	Feb 28, 2023

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for scalable notification deliveries in computing environments. A subscription request is transmitted along with a user identifier, a service identifier, a subscription identifier, and a channel identifier. Notifications are communicated through a notification multiplexing channel between two nodes of a computing environment. The notification multiplexing channel includes notifications multiplexed by subscription identifiers. The notification multiplexing channel corresponds to the channel identifier. A notification corresponding to the subscription identifier is identified and provided to a client computing device associated with the user identifier.

First claim

Therefore, the following is claimed:

1. A system comprising:
at least one computing device comprising at least one processor and at least one data store;
machine readable instructions stored in the at least one data store, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one computing device to at least:
receive, by a gateway notification service executed by a gateway node computing device, a subscription request for a subscription to a target service, the subscription request comprising a user identifier, a node identifier of a target node computing device, and a service identifier of the target service;
generate a subscription identifier for the subscription to the target service;
establish a session-based channel between the gateway node computing device and a computing device that generates a user interface, wherein the subscription request is received from the computing device;
establish a notification multiplexing channel between the gateway node computing device and the target node computing device;
transmit, from the gateway notification service to a notification service executed by the target node computing device, a forwarded subscription request comprising: the user identifier, the service identifier, the subscription identifier, and a channel identifier;
identify, by the gateway notification service, a multiplexed stream of notifications received through the notification multiplexing channel;
demultiplex, by the gateway notification service, the multiplexed stream of notifications based at least in part on a plurality of subscription identifiers, wherein the subscription identifier is one of the plurality of subscription identifiers, and the subscription identifier is unique to a combination of parameters comprising: the user identifier, the service identifier, and the node identifier of the target node computing device, wherein the target node computing device executes a particular instance of the target service among a plurality of instances of the target service that are executed using different nodes, and the particular instance of the target service is targeted using the node identifier and the service identifier; and
push at least one notification to the computing device using the session-based channel, wherein the at least one notification specifies the subscription identifier.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notification multiplexing channel utilizes a WebSocket protocol.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the subscription request comprises a notification API call comprising the user identifier.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the forwarded subscription request comprises a notification API call comprising the user identifier.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the subscription identifier and the channel identifier are passed as parameters.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the gateway notification service and the notification service comprise respective ones of a plurality of notification management services corresponding to a plurality of node computing devices.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notification multiplexing channel comprises notifications corresponding to multiple different subscription identifiers, wherein the multiple different subscription identifiers correspond to at least one of: multiple different user identifiers, and multiple different service identifiers.

8. A method comprising:
receiving, by a notification service executed by a first node computing device, a subscription request for a subscription to a service executed by the first node computing device, the subscription request comprising: a user identifier, a service identifier of the service, a subscription identifier, and a channel identifier, wherein the subscription identifier is unique to a combination of parameters comprising: the user identifier, the service identifier, and a node identifier of the first node computing device, wherein the first node computing device executes a particular instance of the service among a plurality of instances of the service that are executed using different nodes, and the particular instance of the service corresponds to the node identifier and the service identifier;
subscribing to the service based on the subscription request;
identifying a plurality of notifications corresponding to at least one of a plurality of subscriptions to a plurality of services executed by the first node computing device; and
transmitting, through a notification multiplexing channel between the first node computing device and a second node computing device, a multiplexed stream of the plurality of notifications, wherein the multiplexed stream comprises at least one notification corresponding to the subscription identifier.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the notification multiplexing channel utilizes a WebSocket protocol.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the service filters notifications based at least in part on a security context for the user identifier.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the subscription request comprises a notification API call comprising the user identifier.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the subscription request is forwarded from the second node computing device.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the subscription identifier and the channel identifier are passed as parameters of at least one of the notification API call and the subscription request.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the notification multiplexing channel comprises notifications corresponding to multiple different subscription identifiers, wherein the multiple different subscription identifiers correspond to at least one of: multiple different user identifiers, and multiple different service identifiers.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising machine readable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause at least one computing device to at least:
transmit, from a first notification service executed by a first node computing device to a second notification service executed by a second node computing device that further executes a particular instance of a plurality of instances of a publisher service, a notification API call comprising: a user identifier and a service identifier, wherein a subscription identifier and a channel identifier are passed as parameters;
receive at least one notification through a notification multiplexing channel between the first node computing device and the second node computing device, wherein the notification multiplexing channel comprises a plurality of notifications multiplexed based at least in part on multiple different subscription identifiers, and the notification multiplexing channel corresponds to the channel identifier, wherein a subscription identifier of the multiple subscription identifiers is unique to a combination of parameters comprising: the user identifier, the service identifier, and a node identifier of the second node computing device, wherein the particular instance of the publisher service is targeted using the node identifier and the service identifier;
identify, from the plurality of notifications, at least one notification corresponding to the subscription identifier; and
transmit the at least one notification to a client computing device associated with the user identifier.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein a channel between the client computing device and the first node computing device is identified based at least in part on the subscription identifier.

Assignees

• Vmware Inc
• Vmw Are Inc

Inventors

• Georgiev Kostadin
• Popov Deyan
• Tzvetkov Lyubomir

Classifications

• H04L63/029

  Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes · CPC title

• H04L41/0686 Primary

  Additional information in the notification, e.g. enhancement of specific meta-data · CPC title

• H04L41/508

  based on type of value added network service under agreement · CPC title

• H04L67/55 Primary

  Push-based network services · CPC title

• H04L67/562

  Brokering proxy services · CPC title