Patent ID: 8019807

Claim:
A service request broking system operative between independent first computer system and second computer system to receive a service request for a service from a computer application requester and to transmit the service request to a computer application provider, comprising: (a) a requester-side processing stage operative to communicate with the computer application requester operative in a first computer system; (b) a provider-side processing stage operative to communicate with a computer application provider operative in a second computer system, the computer application provider having a computer address and a physical and logical interface or structure; and (c) a broking stage independent of the computer application requester and of the computer application provider operative in a third computer system to receive the service request from the computer application requester, the service request identifies the service that is required by the computer application requester and does not contain an identification of the computer application provider to fulfil the service request, the service request expressed in terms that are independent of the computer address and the physical and logical interface or structure of the computer application provider, wherein upon receipt of the service request from the computer application requester, the broking stage is further operative to identify the computer application provider to fulfil the service request and to send the service request to the computer application provider through the provider-side processing stage.