Patent ID: 6928487

Claim:
A networked computer system comprising: (A) a first computer system comprising: a first processor; a first memory coupled to the first processor; a first data structure residing in the first memory; a first application residing in the first memory; a trigger mechanism residing in the first memory and executed by the first processor that detects a change to the first data structure and, in response, invokes the first application; a software tool residing in the memory that is invoked by the first application to retrieve information from the data structure and to format the information into a defined format comprising an XML document; (B) a secure communication mechanism that provides encoded messages between the first computer system and a second computer system, the secure communication mechanism transmitting the formatted information from the first computer system to the second computer system; (C) the second computer system comprising: a second processor; a second memory coupled to the second processor; a second data structure residing in the memory; a second application residing in the second memory, the second application receiving the formatted information from the secure communication mechanism; a parser residing in the second memory, the parser parsing the formatted information and generating therefrom second information, the parser adding the second information to the second data structure; the second application processing the second information in the second data structure, taking action based on the second information and business logic for the second computer system, generating a response comprising an XML document to the first computer system, and transmitting the response via the secure communication mechanism.