Patent ID: 9432410
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system that integrates pipeline processing into a service broker environment, the system comprising: a plurality of applications, executing on one or more application servers, wherein each application server of the one or more application servers operates on one or more microprocessors; and a service broker, wherein the service broker is operable to manage activation of the plurality of applications in one or more application chains; wherein at least one application chain of the one or more application chains selectively comprises a pipeline block comprising two or more applications of the plurality of applications; wherein the service broker orchestrates processing of the pipeline block including activating the two or more applications of the plurality of applications in the pipeline block in a same order for messages routed via the pipeline block in both forward and backward directions of the messages relative to the pipeline block; wherein the service broker comprises filter criteria comprising a unidirectional group extension element associated with the pipeline block, the unidirectional group extension element indicating that the two or more applications of the plurality of applications which are grouped in the pipeline block are to be executed in the same order for the messages routed via the pipeline block in both the forward and the backward directions of the messages relative to the pipeline block.