Patent ID: 8429189

Claim:
A computer-implemented method operable on a computer system for hosted-content retrieval comprising: receiving at a client, which is operating on a user computer, a user request for hosted content stored in a database; generating at the client a URL request having URL parameters according to a representational state transfer (REST) protocol; transmitting the URL request from the client to a gateway, which is operating on a server computer; extracting via the gateway the URL parameters from the URL request according to the REST protocol, generating via the gateway a database query for hosted content identified by the URL parameters; transmitting via the gateway the database query to the database; generating in the database via an in-memory database engine a search report for the database query; transmitting the search report from the database to the gateway; encoding via the gateway the search report in an XML representation according to the REST protocol; transmitting the search report in the XML representation from the gateway to the client; and decoding via the client the search report in the XML representation via the REST protocol for use by the client.