Patent ID: 7949787

Claim:
A method for open content model Web service messaging in a networked computing environment, the method comprising: generating a transport neutral message comprising message recipient information, endpoint addressing information, and one or more reference properties comprising selectively opaque message context, the addressing information and selectively opaque message context are respectfully specified by an endpoint reference and message information headers, the message information headers further comprising a reply-to property identifying an intended recipient for a reply to the transport neutral message, a relates-to property that indicates how the transport neutral message relates to a different transport neutral message, at least one of the one or more reference properties to ensure that the reply-to property contains additional information to provide one or more functions related to a sender's implementation, and a fault-to property that is used to send one or more responses to a specific entity when there is a fault associated with the message, wherein the selectively opaque message context is based on an Extended Markup Language (XML) messaging protocol; binding the transport neutral message to a transport protocol for communication to the message recipient, wherein binding the transport protocol is based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP); and wherein at least a portion of the selectively opaque message context is not directed to the message recipient.