Discovery of server functions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9774688-B2
Application number	US-201514709765-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2015
Priority date	Sep 18, 2014
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

A request associated with a functions that are provided by a server may be received from a client system. A subset of the functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request may be identified. Information based on the identified subset of functions may be generated. Furthermore, the information that is based on the identified subset of functions may be transmitted to the client system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a client system, a request associated with a plurality of functions that are provided by a server;
identifying, by a processing device, a subset of functions of the plurality of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request;
receiving, from the client system, a selection of one or more of the identified subset of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request; and
transmitting information identifying an operation of the selected one or more of the identified subset of functions to the client system.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating description information associated with the operation for the selected one or more of the identified subset of functions; and
transmitting the description information to the client system.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the description information identifies inputs and outputs for each of the selected one or more functions of the identified subset of functions.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying an access permission associated with the client system, wherein the identifying of the subset of functions is based on the access permissions associated with the client system satisfying a condition associated with the subset of functions.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving programming code corresponding to a new function to be provided by the server.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
receiving a second request associated with the plurality of functions that are provided by the server;
identifying a second subset of functions of the plurality of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request; and
generating second information based on the identified second subset of functions, wherein the second subset of functions comprises the new function and the first subset of functions.

7. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
standardizing a feature of the new function to be provided by the server, wherein the feature corresponds to an error message associated with the new function.

8. A system comprising:
a memory; and
a processing device operatively coupled with the memory and to:
receive, from a client system, a request associated with a plurality of functions that are provided by a server;
identify a subset of functions of the plurality of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request;
receive, from the client system, a selection of one or more of the identified subset of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request; and
transmit information identifying an operation of the selected one or more of the identified subset of functions to the client system.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processing device is further to:
generate description information associated with the operation for the selected one or more of the identified subset of functions; and
transmit the description information to the client system.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the description information identifies inputs and outputs for each of the selected one or more functions of the identified subset of functions.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processing device is further to:
identify an access permission associated with the client system, wherein the identifying of the subset of functions is based on the access permissions associated with the client system satisfying a condition associated with the subset of functions.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processing device is further to:
receive programming code corresponding to a new function to be provided by the server.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing device is further to:
receive a second request associated with the plurality of functions that are provided by the server;
identify a second subset of functions of the plurality of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request; and
generate second information based on the identified second subset of functions, wherein the second subset of functions comprises the new function and the first subset of functions.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing device is further to:
standardize a feature of the new function to be provided by the server, wherein the feature corresponds to an error message associated with the new function.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium including data that, when accessed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a client system, a request associated with a plurality of functions that are provided by a server;
identifying a subset of functions of the plurality of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request;
receiving, from the client system, a selection of one or more of the identified subset of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request; and
transmitting information identifying an operation of the selected one or more of the identified subset of functions to the client system.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , the operations further comprising:
generating description information associated with the operation for the selected one or more of the identified subset of functions; and
transmitting the description information to the client system.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the description information identifies inputs and outputs for each of the selected one or more functions of the identified subset of functions.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , the operations further comprising:
receiving programming code corresponding to a new function to be provided by the server.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18 , the operations further comprising:
receiving a second request associated with the plurality of functions that are provided by the server;
identifying a second subset of functions of the plurality of functions that are provided by the server and that are available based on the request; and
generating second information based on the identified second subset of functions, wherein the second subset of functions comprises the new function and the first subset of functions.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18 , the operations further comprising:
standardizing a feature of the new function to be provided by the server, wherein the feature corresponds to an error message associated with the new function.

Assignees

• Salesforce Com Inc

Inventors

• Tran Leo Duy
• Bailey Samuel William
• Wunderlich James Bock
• Canizares Miguel
• Pollinger Thomas
• Balsam Elizabeth

Classifications

• H04L67/16 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L67/51 Primary

  Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services · CPC title