Patent ID: 8701127
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing system, a web services request to invoke a method of a web Application Programming Interface (API), wherein the web services request is a request to invoke an enumerate databases method of the web API, the enumerate databases request containing an identifier of a last seen database; in response to receiving the web services request, invoking, by the computing system, a method of a language-dependent API of a client component in a collaboration system, the client component communicating with a collaboration server component in the collaboration system using a proprietary communications protocol, the method of the language-dependent API being a method to obtain data from the collaboration server component; and after invoking the method of the language-dependent API, sending, by the computing system, a web services response whose contents depend on the data obtained from the collaboration server component, wherein the web services response is an enumerate databases response responsive to the enumerate databases request and the enumerate databases response containing identifiers of databases having values greater than the identifier of the last seen database.