Patent ID: 7415497

Claim:
A method for asynchronously transferring at least one message signal from a server computer to at least one client computer, comprising: assigning the at least one message signal, when the at least one message signal appears on the server computer, at least one further message signal; writing the at least one further message signal to at least one pipe of the server computer; transmitting the at least one further message signal, via the at least one pipe, to at least one servlet of the server computer; using at least one communication software program on the at least one client computer to set up a connection to the servlet of the server computer and to execute an audio program, which the server computer includes and which is associated with the further message signal; and transferring the at least one further message signal from the at least one servlet to the at least one client computer via the connection, wherein a fate of the at least one message signal and the at least one further message signal are decoupled, and wherein a sound content of the audio program is characteristic of the associated at least one further message signal.