Patent ID: 7693994

Claim:
A method of operating a plurality of intermediary servers coupled between first and second servers and coupled in series, each of the plurality of intermediary servers including a table, the method comprising: receiving, at a first of the plurality of intermediary servers, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request from the first server; dividing, by the first of the plurality of intermediary servers, the HTTP request into parts; distributing the parts of the HTTP request to process, by the first of the plurality of intermediary servers, the distributing for each part of the HTTP request including, acquiring a uniform resource identifier (URI) from a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message of the part, determining whether the acquired URI is to be processed by the first of the plurality of intermediary servers based on the table, and setting to transfer the part to a next of the plurality of intermediary servers if the acquired URI is not to be processed by the first of the plurality of intermediary servers, the set to transfer part to be distributed by the next of the plurality of intermediary servers; and transmitting, by the first of the plurality of intermediary servers, an HTTP response based on the distributed parts of the HTTP request.