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2006-01-10

2006-01-10

Courtenay, III, St. John (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Interprogram communication using message

Object oriented message

C707S793000, C705S007380, C705S002000, C705S002000, C715S811000, C715S817000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06986145

ABSTRACT:
Composite applications combine services from plurality of existing applications and information sources. Via user interface of such a composite application, an end-user wants to access different combinations of existing services in different usage contexts. This invention describes a method and apparatus for dynamically combining existing services without having to program case-by-case for each usage context. In this method, one constructs and stores a graph of object types and relationships among parameters of existing services and the objects of a composite application. By traversing paths in the stored graph, the apparatus (1) dynamically constructs menus of services relevant to any usage context, (2) automatically computes necessary inputs to a service selected from a menu and executes the service, and (3) automatically propagates changes and invokes appropriate services whenever objects are updated. The net result is the avoidance of case-by-case programming done in the prior art to construct composite applications.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2002/0144233 (2002-10-01), Chong et al.
patent: 2002/0154178 (2002-10-01), Barnett et al.

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