Patent ID: 8301573
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G06Q,H04L,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory machine readable storage media impressed with program instructions that, when executed by a processor for a second party, enable the processor to coordinate a choreographed exchange of messages in an electronic commerce conversation between a first party and the second party with a workflow process associated with the second party, wherein the coordination of the choreographed exchange comprises: the second party receiving a message in the conversation, the conversation conforming to an electronic commerce conversation process standard; verifying that the message conforms to the conversation process standard and to a history of the conversation; reporting the message to a task activation data structure, wherein the data structure is shared with the workflow processor associated with the second party, whereby the workflow processor uses the data structure to asynchronously activate tasks; receiving a workflow message and using the workflow message to prepare a response to the message; and updating the history of the conversation one or more times.