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Communication channel between web application and process outside browser

US9390172B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 3, 2009
Grant dateJul 12, 2016
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Expiry dateDec 3, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F21/128
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed herein for relaying a request to a process running on a computing device from a web client and receiving a response from the process. A bridge message client disposed in a web application, running in a browser on a computer, opens a local connection to a process running outside the browser. The bridge message client comprises a communication channel ID that identifies a communication channel to host the local connection to a bridge server, and a bridge message client ID facilitates communications from the bridge server to the web application. The bridge server is disposed outside of the browser environment, and can receive a request from the bridge message client and forward it to the process, and/or can receive a response to the request from the process and forward it to the bridge message client over the local connection.

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