Patent ID: 6779000
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
In the Internet, a method for an end-user application process executing on an end-user computer to be responsive to a received communication communicated by a service provider application service process executing on a service provider computer in the Internet, the method comprising:a) in response to sending a request communication, the end-user application process receives a response communication, the response communication including a specification for using an application service provided by a module within a dynamically loadable library; b) the end-user application process disconnects from the communication; c) the end-user application process uses an operating system interface to dynamically load the service into the memory address space of the end-user application process wherein the executable code corresponding to the service was not compiled into the static representation of the application program corresponding to the end-user application process; d) the end-user application process interacts with the application service.