Flexibly transferring typed application data

US8296354B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Erik B. Christensen · Seattle, US
• Vaithiakingam B. Balayoghan · Bellevue, US
• Michael J. Coulson · Clyde Hill, US
• Ryan Thomas Sturgell · Seattle, US
• Natasha Jethanandani · Seattle, US
• Michael J. Marucheck · Bellevue, US
• Douglas M. Purdy · Bellevue, US
• Kenneth D. Wolf · Seattle, US
• Michael Steven Vernal · San Francisco, US
• Stefan H. Pharies · Seattle, US
• David Wortendyke · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2004
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/133
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention extends to using Simple Object Access Protocol (“SOAP”) to exchange typed objects, such as, for example, parameters for invoking methods. A computer system accesses typed object parameters corresponding to a typed object. The typed object is annotated with one or more message contract attributes of a message contract model defining a mapping between typed object parameters and corresponding SOAP elements. The computer system utilizes the message contract attributes to map the typed object parameters into a SOAP element and inserts the SOAP element into a SOAP envelope. A receiving computer system accessing the SOAP element and utilizes the message contract attributes to map the SOAP element back into the typed object parameters.