System and method for building and using communication binding objects

US7921216B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Craig A. Critchley · Fall City, US
• David Wortendyke · Seattle, US
• Elliot Waingold · Seattle, US
• Eric K. Zinda · Seattle, US
• Erik B. Christensen · Seattle, US
• Giovanni M. Della-Libera · Seattle, US
• Kenneth D. Wolf · Seattle, US
• Michael Steven Vernal · San Francisco, US
• Shy Cohen · Bellevue, US
• Stefan H. Pharies · Seattle, US
• Stephen J. Millet · Edmonds, US
• Stephen T. Swartz · Seattle, US
• Tomasz Janczuk · Redmond, US
• Uday Hegde · Bellevue, US
• Yaniv Pessach · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 2005
• Grant date: Apr 5, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/546
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides for an automated, user friendly way of constructing and using a binding object. A developer is presented with and selects binding elements that will ultimately be used to create a runtime communication channel for transporting a message between a client and service endpoint. After receiving the user input, metadata, a channel factory and listener factory are created. The metadata describes binding elements and provides an abstract representation of a protocol stack that implements communication aspects at runtime. The channel factory is configured to use the collection of metadata at runtime to generate the runtime communication channel. Further, the listener factory is configured to accept the runtime communication channel for de-multiplexing the communication aspects in order to process the message at a service endpoint. The present invention also provides for groupings of binding elements and standardized binding objects organized based on industry need.