Patent ID: 7319979

Claim:
A method within a communications network, comprising: registering, by a service provider, an Internet service with a broker; transmitting, by the service provider, metadata, to the broker, describing at least one communication proxy, including at least one supported protocol, a type, and a location of the communication proxy, the communication proxy provided by the service provider to enable client-access to the registered Internet service; matching the registered Internet service with a client request to locate a client-desired Internet service having a client-specified communication proxy type and a client-specified application-level protocol; downloading the communication proxy of the registered Internet service from the location to a node local to a client that issued the client request to the broker; and accessing, by the communication proxy, a web server of the service provider to provide the registered Internet service to the client if a type of the communication proxy matches the client-specified communication proxy type and a supported protocol of the communication proxy matches the client-specified application-level.