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Polling (computer science)

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In computer science the term Polling refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity.

An example of polling can be found in many online chat solutions where a server must queue messages and wait to be asked by a client. This is the most common mechanism for chat utilizing the Ajax (programming) web communications technique.

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