Patent ID: 7299477
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A data processing method for running in a process on a data processing system, the method comprising: building, in a current process, a context for inclusion in a flow to a different process in the same or a different data processing system, wherein the context comprises optional data; and flowing the context to the different process as part of the flow wherein the flow is a request to a program entity, wherein building the context for inclusion in the flow to the different process comprises: providing an identifier in the optional data in the context, wherein the identifier has a value that identifies a target program entity of the flow only if the flow originates in the current process, and wherein the identifier has a value other than a value that identifies the target program entity of the flow if the flow originated in a different process from the current process; wherein the different process processes the request based on the optional data in the context and responsive to determining that the current process added the optional data to the context, adopts nonstandard behavior in communications with the current process.