Patent ID: 8725776

Claim:
At least one computer-readable storage medium storing a plurality of instructions that are executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to: perform a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) transform process a plurality of SOAP messages using a data structure, the data structure of individual ones of the SOAP messages comprising: a first field to contain a signature element, the first field to include: a second field to contain a transform element that specifies a transfer algorithm applied to a header element of the SOAP message to generate a digest value, a third field within the second field to contain the digest value, a fourth field to contain a digest algorithm applied to the digest value to generate a digest value element, a fifth field to contain the digest value element, the digest value element being the same for each of the SOAP messages; wherein the second field to contain the transform element specifies the transfer algorithm to generate a zero-length octet stream; and transmitting at least one of the SOAP messages to a receiver.