LOCAL CACHING AND RESOLUTION OF SERVICE CALLS

摘要

A local service system receives a call from a local application. The local service system determines whether an acceptable result to return for the call is already stored in a local service cache. If not, the local service system calls a remote service system to obtain a result, it returns the result to the local application, and stores the result in the local service cache.

主权项

1. A local service computing system that is local to a multi-user computing system and that responds to service calls from users of the multi-user computing system, comprising:
a local service cache that stores results from calls by the multi-user computing system to a remote service system; a response engine that receives an incoming service call from the multi-user computing system to a remote service system and accesses the local service cache to determine whether the local service cache has an acceptable result that is responsive to the incoming service call and, if so, retrieves the acceptable result and responds to the incoming service call with the acceptable result; and a remote service accessing engine that passes the incoming service call to the remote service system to receive a fresh result, in response to the response engine determining that the local service cache does not have an adequate result, the response engine responding to the incoming service call with the fresh result.