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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1998
Peter David Niblett, Whitchurch, GB;
Karen Louise Randell, Eastleigh, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided is a gateway for linking between different communication models. The gateway, which may be implemented in a computer program installable on a server system, facilitates interoperation between computer programs which require synchronous communications sessions and computer programs based on an asynchronous model of communication. The invention enables a synchronously-connected client to revisit interactions with a server and asynchronously communicating programs, to interleave interactions with more than one application, and to associate together request-response pairs of a long running application. In particular, the invention provides apparatus and methods enabling linking between the Internet WWW service and a general purpose messaging system.