Patent ID: 7188150
Filing Date: 2007-03-06
Classification: G06F,G09B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer system comprising: a computer with one or more memories, one or more central processing units, and one or more interfaces to one or more networks; a tuplespace data structure that identifies one or more server computers, a geographic location for each server computer, and authorized, password-protected shared data fields made available through the network to create an extranet image; and an extranet monitor that detects incoming messages from one or more requester server computers, being one of the server computers, determines a service required by the message, the service comprising any one or more of: wherein the extranet monitor stores a service request corresponding to the service in the tuplespace data structure along with the geographic location of the requester server computer and one or more destination server computers, the destination server computers each being a server computer, the extranet monitor further selects destination server computers that can respond to the request and routes the message to the selected destination server computers, each destination server computer defining specific content that can be searched and retrieved from said each destination server computer in response to messages from the extranet monitor; and wherein the extranet monitor receives an XML representation of a document list that matches the original request in response from selected destination server computers and routes the document list to the requester server computer.