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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2000
Bernhard Weisshaar, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Merlin Smith, Chandler, AZ (US);
Parvathy Bhaskaran, Mesa, AZ (US);
Mark Clayton, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Kungwel Mike Liu, Chandler, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
In an information appliance system , a user device comprises a client platform ( , FIG. ) that includes a service framework ( , FIG. ) to discover and connect with a variety of services, both remote and local, transient and persistent, and to disconnect from them when they are no longer of interest or become unavailable. The service framework provides a standard, consistent, simplified way for services to make themselves available and for service-using entities to locate and connect with the services of interest to them. When a service is requested from a remote server, a service frontend ( , FIG. ) on the client platform attempts to find its corresponding service backend ( , FIG. ) on a server providing the requested service and, if it finds it, the frontend and backend coalesce in a fully formed service that is made available to a requesting service-using entity. As a result, platform resources and security are maintained. Various methods of operating a service framework are also described.