Patent ID: 7418477

Claim:
A communications system comprising: an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another, said at least one communications device processing requests using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client application, and said application server performing email delivery and aggregation services; and an HTTP server for interfacing said HTTP client application with said application server; said HTTP server and said HTTP client application formatting requests to be communicated therebetween via the Internet in an HTTP format, and each providing additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests for authenticating the application server and said HTTP client application to one another; said HTTP client application accepting work jobs from said application server by sending a first request to a first universal resource locator (URL) associated with said HTTP server, and responding to the work jobs from said application server by sending a second request with results for the work jobs to a second URL different from the first URL and also associated with said HTTP server.