CSF For Microsoft Triple-Play

Microsoft Connected Services Framework is a set of development tools designed for the “converged” triple-play plus provider. Utilizing UDDI [Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration] which is designed for use with SOAP [Simple Open Access Protocol] which defines how to package or format a database request such OLAP [On-Line Analytical Processing] as an XML string (bits of data) that can be transported via HTTP [Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol] (Layer 5-7), CSF can provide all media (TV, ring tones, telephony, movies, games) services to multiple devices (phones, set top boxes and PCs).

UDDI uses standards-based services such as XML, HTTP, SOAP, TCP/IP uniform service description and service discovery protocol. Discovery services provide a consistent publishing interface and allow programmatic discovery (registration) of services. Description services provide the means for Internet registration - to be found but not advertisement or placement on search engine listings. That is, allow organizations to present (register) their Web site information called Programmable Elements so that others can find them. UDDI file structures are designed using a “publish-once-read-by-many” concept. That is, Web site URL [Uniform Resource Locator] can be designed using UDDI standard file structures which can be published to the UDDI server network. The UDDI network can be accessed (discovered) by search engines, customers, and other list builders in a standard published (register) format.

UDDI is also designed to replace the robot.txt search engine Web site document structure concept. Here are some of the Web site description-discovery-registry information retrieved by search engine spiders/bots and other retrieval programs.

• Business Information - businessEntity - Top-level facts - contacts, Tax-ID, addresses, and data such as Yellow Pages taxonomies

• Business Service - businessService - information related to product and services offered, terms, details, pricing, brochures, as well as technical hosting, network configuration information
• Binding Information Template - references to business interaction specifications such as security, protocol and links to back-office systems such as PO [Purchase Order] processing and billing
• tModels - details specifications about interfaces to information such as URL pointers, links, etc.

Since this specification is under development, more details can be found at uddi.org.

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