Method and system for assuring usability of service recommendal by service supplier

Abstract

Method for ensuring the availability of a service proposed by a service provider in a data transmission system. The method includes looking in a context table for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) defined in a service request in order to determine the server able to provide the requested service, appending a service availability request to the request before sending the request to the server, appending a service availability token to the reply provided by the server before sending the reply to the proxy, removing the service availability token from the reply upon reception thereof by the proxy, and updating the context table in the proxy before sending the reply to the user workstation by using information contained in the service availability token.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the accessibility of services provided by service providers to users connected to the Internet, and more particularly, to a method for ensuring the availability of services recommended by service providers and the like through the Internet. Background technique [0002] The market for service providers moves up the value chain from pure connectivity services to offering value-added and revenue-generating services. The service provider's business model, initially driven by minutes of use and increasingly replaced by data communications, is generated by users accessing external services and is usually not maintained by the service provider itself. It is accessed through the service provider platform. Because the service provider is the intermediary between users and external services, it plays an important role. His privileged position allows him not only to provide "simple" access, but also to provide value-added servi...

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Problems solved by technology

[0010] However, although the use of a reverse proxy between the user and the content server can ensure the security of the communication, it is still impossible to control the availability of the service provider in real time before sending any new requests.

Therefore, when a proxy receives a request, the proxy server cannot reject the request even though the previous requests have overloaded the server and caused server performance degradation.

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