Patent Document ID: 8375116
Application ID: 12646119

Base Claim:
1. A method for routing input business documents received from client computers via a network to one or more operations running on processing servers, the method including: storing on a first server a plurality of operation interface specification data structures that include operation interface specifications, the operation interface specifications including descriptions of operations and definitions of input and output documents; receiving data comprising a document at a second server from a client computer via a network; parsing the document using the second server according to the operation interface specifications to identify an input document and to identify one or more operations that run on one or more processing servers, which accept the identified input document; and routing at least a portion of the input document from the second server to the one or more identified operations running on the processing servers, which accept the identified input document.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said operation interface specifications further include data identifying respective descriptions of sets of storage units and logical structures for the sets of storage units.