Patent ID: 7216142
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system for facilitating communication in a distributed network environment, the system comprising: a request broker, implemented as a servlet operating at a Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTPS) web server within a hub system, operable to: communicate the parameters in the internal format to an application server within the hub system, to enable execution of the system API method according to the parameters; and the application server system, operable to receive the parameters from the request broker in the internal format, generate a return value reflecting execution of the system API method according to the parameters, and communicate the return value to the request broker in the internal format; the request broker further operable to receive the return value from the application server system in the internal format, communicate the return value in the internal format to the selected translator for translation of the return value from the internal format to the native format, generate a network API reply component that comprises the description of the system API method that was called and the return value in the native format, and communicate the network API reply component to the one or more clients; and a system firewall having a plurality of ports, the system maintaining at least one port of the system firewall open for communication with the one or more clients, the one or more clients initiating a connection to the system through the at least one open port of the system firewall to communicate the network API request component to the request broker, independent of any port of a client firewall being open for communication with the system.