Queued message dispatch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8984530-B2
Application number	US-2399308-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2008
Priority date	Jan 31, 2008
Publication date	Mar 17, 2015
Grant date	Mar 17, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments described herein allow a service component author to write service components without having to handle incoming messages being received at any time. This may be facilitated by a message dispatch engine that dispatches messages from the incoming message queue only when the destination service component has indicated that it is ready to receive the message having that context. If the service component is not yet ready for the message, the message dispatch component may lock the message at least until the destination service component indicates that it is now ready to receive the message. Until that time, the message dispatch engine may ignore the locked message when finding messages to dispatch.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for dispatching an incoming message, the method comprising:
an act of a message dispatch engine managing dispatch of messages to a plurality of service components;
an act of the message dispatch engine accessing service readiness information representing whether or not each of the plurality of service components are ready to receive messages;
an act of placing an incoming message destined for a service component of the plura…

Assignees

• Pinto Edmund Samuel Victor
• Wolf Kenneth David
• Millet Stephen J
• Hill Richard D
• Allen Nicholas Alexander
• Taylor John Anthony
• Microsoft Corp

Inventors

• Pinto Edmund Samuel Victor
• Wolf Kenneth David
• Millet Stephen J
• Hill Richard D
• Allen Nicholas Alexander
• Taylor John Anthony

Classifications

• H04L49/90

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F9/546 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic