Invocation of additional processing using remote procedure calls

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9009740-B2
Application number	US-201113181830-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2011
Priority date	Jul 13, 2011
Publication date	Apr 14, 2015
Grant date	Apr 14, 2015

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method for invoking additional processing at a remote computing device using remote procedure calls (RPCs) is provided. In this method, a list of functions supported by the remote computing device is received from the remote computing device. From the list of functions, a function that requires metadata about the function is identified. The metadata and argument required by the function is accessed, and an RPC message that includes the metadata and the argument is composed. The RPC message is then transmitted to the remote computing device. Here, the RPC message is transmitted to call the function with the argument as input and to invoke the additional processing based on the metadata.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving at a client device, from a server device a list of functions supported by the server device and a mapping of functions of the client device to the functions supported by the server device, the functions having associated metadata that describes additional processing associated with the functions not supported by standard RPC calls, wherein the metadata is defined by the client device;
identifying at the client device, from th…

Assignees

• Jordahl Thomas E
• Colwell Pamela L
• Butler Matthew
• Adobe Systems Inc

Inventors

• Jordahl Thomas E
• Colwell Pamela L
• Butler Matthew

Classifications

• G06F9/547 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic