Patent ID: 8640144
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A programmed method for facilitating transactions between thin-clients and Message Format Service (MFS)-based Information Management System (IMS) applications, the programmed method comprising the process steps of: storing, by use of a processor, conversation attributes associated with a conversational transaction between a thin-client and an MFS-based IMS application, the conversation attributes comprising a message input descriptor (MID), a message output descriptor (MOD), and a table; establishing a connection for the conversational transaction between the MFS-based IMS application on a mainframe and a web server; determining if a request from the thin-client requires interaction with the MFS-based IMS application based on a transaction message type, wherein security information message types, function key message types, paging message types, conversational commands, and format command message types do not require interaction with the MFS-based IMS application; in response to the request requiring interaction with the MFS-based IMS application, transmitting a conversation input message to the MFS-based IMS application and formatting a conversation output message for the thin-client from the MFS-based IMS application according to the conversation attributes, wherein formatting comprises combining (XML) Extended Markup Language Metadata Interchange (XMI) information for a computing device executing the thin-client with XML Stylesheet (XSL) information to generate HyperText Markup Language (HTML) data suitable for display on the thin-client and sends the HTML data to the thin-client; and in response to the request not requiring interaction with the MFS-based IMS application, responding to the request from the web server.