Patent ID: 8468264

Claim:
A computer implemented of displaying on a display device a user interface used for integrating applications, comprising: displaying a set of options on the display device for configuring at least one application router on an application network; providing settings to configure the at least one application router to discover information from one or more applications through receipt of at least a registration notification from an application on the application network, wherein the registration notification includes information associated with the application; providing settings that affect discovery of the one or more applications, wherein discovery of the one or more applications comprises adding the information describing the application to a repository used to reference the application, organizing the information in the repository into a data structure, and publishing the data structure onto the at least one application router; and providing settings to configure the at least one application router to route data exchanged between applications transmitting in an application protocol format over the application network, wherein the data is converted from the application protocol format into a neutral protocol compatible with the one or more application router devices on the application network.