Patent ID: 8521838
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging specifications of communication systems that includes services, communication methods and technical settings needed for communication, the medium comprising: program code for receiving via a message-based interface derived from a common business object model, where the common business object model includes business objects having relationships that enable derivation of message-based interfaces and message packages, the message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for querying a specification of a communication system that includes services, communication methods, and technical settings needed for communication, the first message including that in eludes a first message package derived from the common business object model, the first message package hierarchically organized in memory as: at a first hierarchical level within the first message package, a communication system query message entity; and at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a communication system package comprising, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a communication system entity, where the communication system entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a communications system universally unique identifier (UUID), a communications system identifier (ID), a system access type code, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) proxy name, system administrative data, and a communications system status; program code for processing the first message based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the first message includes unpacking the first message package based on the first message package's structure and the first message package's derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular structure of the first message package is used at least in part to identify the purpose of the first message; and program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message, where the second message includes a second message package derived from the common business object model to provide consistent semantics with the first message package.