Patent ID: 8161096
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling Web services from a first apparatus on a first network, the method comprising: determining, by the first apparatus, whether an instruction in a first structured document, for Web services, comprises a remote procedure call to at least one Web service provided on a second network, wherein the at least one Web service provided on the second network is accessible from a second apparatus that forwards a procedure call to a third apparatus on the second network that is responsible for handling the procedure call; generating second and third structured documents from the first structured document, wherein the second structured document is generated by a process comprising replacing the remote procedure call to the at least one Web service provided on the second network with a call to execute the third structured document, and wherein the third structured document comprises the instruction in the first structured document for the remote procedure call to the at least one Web service provided on the second network; registering the second structured document in the first apparatus on the first network; registering the third structured document in the second apparatus on the second network; calling, from the first apparatus, the second apparatus in accordance with the call, in the second structured document, to execute the third structured document; and receiving, at the first apparatus, a processing result of the third structured document having been processed by the second apparatus by calling the third apparatus on the second network responsible for handling the at least one Web service provided on the second network in accordance with the instruction in the third structured document.