Patent ID: 7644185
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communications system comprising: a plurality of communications devices connected together in a protected computing environment network and having a plurality of user accounts associated therewith, at least one of said communications devices processing requests using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client application associated therewith; an application server for accessing the user accounts via said HTTP client application; and an HTTP server for interfacing said HTTP client application with said application server; said HTTP server and said HTTP client application formatting requests to be communicated therebetween in an HTTP format, and each providing a global unique identifier (GUID) associated with said HTTP client application with the HTTP formatted requests for authenticating the application server and said HTTP client application to one another; said HTTP client application accepting work jobs from said application server by sending a first request to a first universal resource locator (URL) associated with said HTTP server, and responding to the work jobs from said application server by sending a second request with results for the work jobs to a second URL different from the first URL and also associated with said HTTP server.