Patent ID: 7797405

Claim:
A method, including: receiving a first stream of packets at a first server, the first stream of packets comprising a first data message and a first control message, both the first data message and the first control messages encoded in a computing platform independent protocol, wherein the first stream of packets comprises a first stream of hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) packets received at a first HTTP module within the first server and wherein the computing platform independent protocol comprises a simple object access protocol (SOAP); extracting the first data message from the computing platform independent protocol using a computing platform independent protocol decoder module while receiving the first stream of packets; storing the first data message while receiving the first stream of packets; converting the first control message to a business logic object model format using the first HTTP module; passing the first control message from the first HTTP module to a first business logic module; and invoking a first business method at the first business logic module using the first control message.