Patent ID: 8078668
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of processing an outgoing message in a communication network, the message traveling on the network from a transmitter node to a receiver node along a path which may be closed and which comprises a plurality of nodes including first and second intermediate nodes, the message being expressed in a data description language and comprising a plurality of distinct information blocks of which at least two distinct information blocks are respectively destined for the first and second intermediate nodes of the path, the method being implemented in at least both of the first and second intermediate nodes of the path and comprising the following steps executed at least in both of the first and second intermediate nodes: receiving the message; identifying in the message the information blocks destined for the node; processing the identified information blocks to produce at least one result data item including a response destined for the transmitter node, wherein the at least one result data item is marked as a result data item by inserting a mark in the result data item, and wherein the transmitter node interprets the at least one result data item; modifying the message by including in the message the at least one result data item; and transmitting the modified message to a following node along the path, wherein the receiver node is a last node in the path for which an information block contained in the message is destined, the receiver node then transmitting a response message to the transmitter node.