Patent ID: 8473623

Claim:
A method for managing a communication between a server device and a customer device said method comprising: interchanging between said server device and said customer device one or more parameter messages including a parameter description for a parameter name, said parameter description consisting of an hierarchical tree-like structure of characters with each level separated by a predefined character (dot); instantiating by an instantiating device of said customer device an iterator associated to an index for a next level of a parameter-sub-tree being part of said parameter description; recalling an object array for said parameter-sub-tree with said next level having different values for its index starting with a predefined start-value and ending with a predefined end-value; and determining any one of said predefined start-value and said predefined end-value in function of at least one of, respectively, a server start-value and a server end-value being provided by said server device to said customer device and, respectively, a customer start-value and a customer end-value being present at said customer device.