Patent ID: 8661154

Claim:
A method performed by a computer bridge for supporting communication between a client and a server, including providing an interface that receives one or more parameters for defining respective characteristics of components of a dataflow graph that includes multiple nodes representing components of the dataflow graph and links between the nodes representing flows of data between the components; receiving, by the computer bridge, a first message over a network from a client; creating an object in response to the first message; sending a response to the first message to the client; receiving, over the network, changes to the object from a server; storing the changes to the object; receiving a second message from the client; and sending the stored changes to the client with a response to the second message; wherein the object corresponds to a portion of the dataflow graph; wherein the interface displays multiple user interface elements with relationships among the user interface elements being based on dependencies between components of the dataflow graph; wherein the relationships are defined by a specification stored on the server.