Patent ID: 6976083

Claim:
In a network computing system, an apparatus for providing direct processing access between a plurality of application servers on a single network and at least one application user comprising: a main storage capable of establishing simultaneous processing communication with the plurality of application servers on the single network; said main storage containing a plurality of queues each assigned to a predetermined portion of said plurality of application servers, wherein said predetermined portion includes multiple application servers, each of said plurality of queues for retrieval of incoming data from and storage of outgoing data to any of its assigned predetermined portion of said plurality of application servers; said main storage containing a queuing mechanism for setting up additional queues without causing interrupts in any running programs, said queues containing state information of said outgoing data for use by one or more applications of said plurality of application servers; an interface element capable of establishing processing communication between said plurality of queues and said at least one application user; and an interrogator operating independent of any application server for examining said plurality of queues to transfer appropriate requests, responses and data between said application servers and said at least one application user.