Patent ID: 8095497
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for handling a eCommerce request received from one of a plurality of requesting entities, comprising: a processor; a flow manager which, when executed by the processor, is configured to utilize runtime metadata to perform a process to map the request from an original format to a transformed format and to call one or more of at least two applications to process the received request, wherein the at least two applications are each configured to process requests in a corresponding transformed format; wherein a first application is configured to process a request of a first request type and a second application is configured to process a request of a second request type; wherein the runtime metadata comprises at least two access methods each configured to define an interface for the at least two applications, the at least two access methods comprising a first access method configured for the first request type and for the first application and a second access method configured for the second request type and for the second application; and wherein the process performed by the flow manager to map the request comprises: