Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services

US7512957B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Shy Cohen · Bellevue, US
• Geary L. Eppley · Carnation, US
• Douglas M. Purdy · Bellevue, US
• James E. Johnson · Bellevue, US
• Stephen J. Millet · Edmonds, US
• Stephen T. Swartz · Seattle, US
• Vijay K. Gajjala · Sammamish, US
• Aaron Stern · Bellevue, US
• Alexander Martin DeJarnatt · Newport, US
• Alfred Lee · Seattle, US
• Anand Rjagopalan · Sammamish, US
• Anastasios Kasiolas · San Francisco, US
• Chaitanya D. Upadhyay · Kirkland, US
• Christopher G. Kaler · Sammamish, US
• Craig A. Critchley · Fall City, US
• David Levin · Redmond, US
• David Driver · Seattle, US
• David Wortendyke · Seattle, US
• Douglas A. Walter · Issaquah, US
• Elliot Waingold · Seattle, US
• Erik B. Christensen · Seattle, US
• Erin Honeycutt · Redmond, US
• Eugene Shvets · Seattle, US
• Evgeny Osovetsky · Bellevue, US
• Giovanni M. Della-Libera · Seattle, US
• Jesus Ruiz-Scougall · Redmond, US
• John D. Doty · Seattle, US
• Jonathan T. Wheeler · Bothell, US
• Kapil Gupta · Sunnyvale, US
• Kenneth D. Wolf · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2004
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2009
• Expiry date: Jul 28, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/02
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.