Patent ID: 7792969

Claim:
A method for transmitting information for a portlet, the method comprising: displaying a desktop on a computer, including a browser window showing a page of a producer portal, and a message client window; receiving a selection of a portlet on the page from a user, the page displaying portlets at the producer portal that can be utilized remotely by at least one consumer, wherein the selection includes receiving a request from the user to transfer a representation of the selected portlet from the page in the browser window to the message client window; identifying web service configuration information for the selected portlet to be utilized by the at least one consumer, wherein the web service configuration information includes an identifier for the producer portal, including an Internet Protocol (IP) address for the producer portal, and an identifier for the selected portlet; providing the web service configuration information to the message client for inclusion in a message; and transmitting the message with the web service configuration information to a recipient over a network, via the message client, so that the recipient is able to use the portlet as a remote portlet based on the web service configuration information.