Patent ID: 7016965

Claim:
A method for asynchronously reading data across secure communication sessions, comprising: a secure communication session receiving a request from a first application process for an asynchronous reading of data across the secure communication session wherein the request specifies a second application program to be executed upon the receiving of data from a data network; the secure communication session passing the request to a transport process; the transport process receiving data from a data network; the transport process initiating the execution of the second application program as a new process; the transport process passing the received data to the secure communication session; and the secure communication session passing the received data to the second application process; wherein the secure communication session communicates with the first application process and the second application process using the secure communication session's application programming interface; wherein the secure communication session's application programming interface (API) is appended to include application programming interface (API) calls for sending, receiving, and interpreting requests for asynchronously reading data across secure sessions; wherein the appended secure communication session application programming interface calls include an input parameter specifying an application program to be executed upon the receipt of data from the data network.