Patent ID: 6356907
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
In a network that includes a plurality of computer systems including a requesting computer system and a resource computer system that are capable of communicating using a transport protocol, the resource computer system maintaining a resource identified by a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the resource having corresponding property information, a method for the requesting computer system to notify the resource computer system of a data type of a property associated with the resource, the method comprising:an act of the requesting computer system generating a network message that represents a request to perform an operation on the property associated with the resource; an act of the requesting computer system including markup language commands in the request in accordance with a markup language, the commands notifying the resource computer system of a data type assigned to the property; and an act of the requesting computer system dispatching the request to the resource computer system according to the transport protocol.