System and method to boost application performance by using a proxy for executing synchronous application programming interface calls

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9032425-B1
Application number	US-201414259191-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Apr 23, 2014
Priority date	Mar 12, 2014
Publication date	May 12, 2015
Grant date	May 12, 2015

Abstract

Techniques are described for utilizing synchronous APIs which normally block callers until a result is returned. In particular, the techniques described herein enable an application or other programming construct to boost performance by executing synchronous APIs (e.g., long running time APIs) within a proxy container rather than executing the synchronous APIs in the context of the application itself. Since the proxy is a separate process or thread, the caller application is thereby released from waiting for the synchronous API call and may proceed with other processing instead of waiting for the synchronous API to return. The application may then monitor the proxy to determine whether a result has been received, such as by periodically polling the proxy.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for executing synchronous application programming interface (API) calls, said method comprising:
receiving, in an application, an invocation of a synchronous application programming interface (API), wherein the synchronous API is configured to block a caller of the invocation until a result of the invocation is returned;
creating a proxy by the application, the proxy configured to execute the invocation of the synchronous API;
executing the invo…

Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Madanapalli Narendra
• Kambivelu Arunkumar

Classifications

• G06F9/541 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic