Patent ID: 7366751

Claim:
A method of operating a framework system connected to communicate with one or more client computer systems, said framework system comprising: one or more framework service computer systems for receiving messages from said one or more client computer systems and outputting reply messages to said one or more client computer systems, wherein said one or more framework service computer systems and said one or more client computer systems constitute a plurality of computer systems, and said method is performed by one or more of said framework service computer systems, wherein said method comprises: obtaining registered IDs of messages that are awaited by one or more of said plurality of computer systems; receiving a point-to-point (P to P) message having an ID and having a protected mode flag indicating whether the message is to be protected by ensuring the message has been sent and processed by the selected computer system; examining the registered IDs to select a computer system from said plurality of computer systems that awaits a message having the ID of said received P to P message; sending the received P to P message to the selected computer system; receiving a point-to-many (P to M) message having an ID; examining the registered IDs to select two or more computer systems from said plurality of computer systems that await a message having the ID of said received P to M message; and sending the received P to M message to the selected two or more computer systems.