Patent ID: 7065706
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A router configured for forwarding a received message, the router comprising: a network interface configured for receiving the received message from a source node, and forwarding the received message to a destination node, via an open protocol network, according to selected application operations; an extensible markup language (XML) parser configured for parsing XML tags from a portion of the received message, the XML tags specifying prescribed attributes; an application resource configured for interpreting the prescribed attributes from the XML tags based on runtime execution of the application resource, the application resource initiating the selected application operations for routing the received message to the destination node, wherein the application resource is configured for interpreting the prescribed attributes based on retrieval of prescribed syntax and semantics information; and a vocabulary library having vocabulary modules, each specifying the prescribed syntax and semantics information for a corresponding group of XML tags, the application resource configured for retrieving the prescribed syntax and semantics information from a selected one of the vocabulary modules based on parsing a first of the XML tags from the received message and specifying the corresponding one vocabulary module.