Patent ID: 6473805
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: G06Q,G16H,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A midware server for use in an enterprise computer network having an enterprise management system which integrates one or more software systems representing respective organizations in a business, and a plurality of client central computers which are accessible to personnel, the one or more software systems of the enterprise management system being preconfigured to communicate with at least one of the plurality of client central computers in accordance with a first data structure, the midware comprising:task processing circuitry for converting at least a portion of communications received in accordance with the first data structure into a second data structure with which said one or more software systems are not configured to communicate, or for converting at least a portion of communications received in accordance with the second data structure into the first data structure; wherein one or more wireless communication devices provided to respective one or more personnel communicate in accordance with the second data structure and collectively represent at least one of the plurality of client central computers, the collective representation being transparent to the software systems of the enterprise management system, and wherein the task processing circuitry is adapted to route communications directed to said at least one of the plurality of client central computers from said one or more software systems in accordance with the first data structure to one or more of the wireless communication devices which collectively represent said at least one of the plurality of client central computers in accordance with the second data structure, or vice versa, thereby enabling the selective addition and/or removal of one or more wireless communication devices to/from the enterprise computer network without having to reconfigure the software systems to communicate with said one or more wireless communication devices.