Oracle International Corporation

Rob Lippmann

Ankur Sharma

Ronald K Park

Curtis Bennett

Jay Daugherty

John C Hughes

Shanmugam Chinnasamy

Niranjan Nagar

Dan Berkery

An object oriented interactive application interface for facilitating application program development in a networked computer system providing on-line services is disclosed. The present invention is an Interactive Application Object module (IAO), comprising a client side portion and a server side portion, that facilitates the development of client applications for interaction with a server across a network. The IAO comprises a set of software objects that include interfaces and methods for implementing a client on-line service application at a high abstraction layer. The IAO provides high level objects for use by a client application for handling a large set of interactive system and business functions. On the client device, the IAO insulates the client application from the implementation details of a particular low level network interface. On the server side, the IAO integrates the a media server functionality and a services module with a conventional robust relational database and a conventional text server for persistent storage and retrieval of user system and business information. The application interface of the present invention comprises, 1) a client application interface for receiving requests from a client application, 2) a network interface for sending and receiving messages related to the client application requests via the network, 3) a database interface for storing and querying information related to the client application requests, and 4) an on-line service interface for interacting with a particular network accessible service having a specific service protocol, the service having resources necessary to respond to the client application requests.

Object oriented computer interface supporting interactive networked

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