Patent ID: 6959340

Claim:
A platform independent business to business messenger subscribing to a messenger service, comprising: a subscribing portion coupling a first partner and a second partner that includes, a subscription manager arranged to listen for a topic based upon an associated subscription rule and receive a first partner message from the topic when the topic points to the first partner message, the first partner message associated with the first partner, a subscription message adapter coupled to the subscription manager arranged to convert the first partner message from a first partner message format to a second partner message format according to the subscription rule, the subscription rule identifying the second partner message format as associated with the second partner, the subscription rule providing a business to business contract between the first partner and the second partner, a first partner adapter coupled to the subscription message adapter arranged to send the converted first partner message to the second partner; and a receiving portion coupling the second partner and the first partner that includes, a second partner adapter coupled to the second partner arranged to send a response to the first partner; a delivery message adapter coupled to the second partner adapter suitably configured to receive the response from the second partner by way of the second partner adapter arranged to convert the response from the second partner message format to the first partner message format, a delivery manager coupled to the delivery message adapter arranged to deliver the response to the first partner.