System and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries
View Patent ↗A system and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries on a consumer's machine and, more particularly, to a system and method of sensing (discovering) service needs on a consumer's machine using a resident Daemon, and responding to the service discoveries using an extension of UDDI. The method comprises receiving a keyword from a local machine, locating a service associated with the keyword, and notifying the local machine about the service that matches the keyword.
1. A computer program product for deploying an application for discovering and providing consumer services in a computing environment, the computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having readable program code stored on the computer readable hardware storage device, the program code comprising:
program code to provide, by the third party computing device, service information of a first service machine of a plurality of service machines to a local machine which is searched for a keyword,
program code to scan, by the third party computing device, for new keywords to be added to a master keyword list;
program code to check, by the third party computing device, for duplicates of the new keywords prior to placing the new keywords into the master keyword list; and
program code to automatically notify of applicable services, wherein:
the keyword matches the provided service information of the first service machine in a keyword list maintained by the third party computing device; and
the third party computing device is external to the local machine and provides a bridge between the local machine and the plurality of service machines.
2. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the providing the service information comprises searching for a match of the keyword in the master keyword list.
3. The computer program product of claim 2 , further comprising program code to index the keyword prior to the searching for the match.
4. The computer program product of claim 1 , further comprising program code to maintain, by the third party computing device, the keyword list in a Central Service Discovery Program (CSDP) that is an extension to a Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI).
5. The system of claim 4 , further comprising program instructions to provide the keyword list via the UDDI.
6. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the maintaining comprises maintaining a plurality of keyword lists corresponding to one or more service groups connected to the CSDP.
7. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the providing the service information comprises periodically polling the master keyword list.
8. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the providing the service information comprises determining new matches with the keyword.
9. The computer program product of claim 1 , further comprising program code to provide the keyword to the first service machine.
10. The computer program product of claim 9 , further comprising providing the keyword to the first service machine after a predetermined number of the same keyword is received from a daemon residing on the local machine.
11. The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein the providing the service information comprises providing connection information for the first service machine to the local machine.
12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the keyword is found by the daemon on the local machine during a periodic searching of the local machine for keywords contained in the master keyword list.
13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the applicable services are persistent as siblings in one list.