Patent ID: 7734756

Claim:
A system located on a first side of a firewall for receiving messages, originating from an application source located at a second side of the firewall, and communicating the messages to a network element located at the first side of the firewall, the system comprising: at least one processing unit; a read/write routine provided in a read/write server at the first side of the firewall, said read/write routine receiving a SOAP message from an underlying communication protocol server compatible with web communication, the SOAP message includes a SOAP envelope over an underlying expanding messaging communication protocol of a user request; a network management application routine (NMA) provided in a network management agent server at the first side of the firewall receiving the SOAP message from said read/write routine; a translator routine provided in a translator box at the first side of the firewall, said translator box receiving said SOAP message and translating said SOAP message into a command and/or data for the network element and a network element agent routine (NEA) provided in a network element agent server at the first side of the firewall parses said SOAP message to produce SOAP packets received from said NMA provided at the first side of the firewall and sends said SOAP packets to said translator routine, wherein the read/write routine receives the SOAP envelope over the underlying expanding messaging communication protocol of a user request provided by an application source for building the SOAP envelope over the underlying expanding messaging communication protocol of the user request provided by an underlying communication protocol server at the second side of the firewall, and provides the SOAP message parsed from the SOAP envelope over the underlying expanding messaging communication protocol.