Patent ID: 6457066
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer-readable medium have stored thereon a data structure for marshaling data between a client computer and a server computer through the Internet, wherein the marshaled data is associated with a method of an Automation object to be instantiated on the server computer, the data structure comprising:(a) a header section comprising: (1) a first header data field containing data representing a name (progid) of the Automation object to be instantiated on the server computer; (2) a second header data field containing data representing a name of a method of the Automation object to invoke; (b) a body section comprising: (1) at least one first body data field containing data representing input parameters for the method to process: and (c) a trailer section comprising a checksum value; wherein (d) the data structure is packaged as an HTTP message in multipart MIME packets.