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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2007
Carlos Cesar Araujo, Cary, NC (US);
Peter James Brittenham, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Nicholas David Butler, Romsey, GB;
Robert David Callaway, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard Eugene Salz, Reading, MA (US);
Carlos Cesar Araujo, Cary, NC (US);
Peter James Brittenham, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Nicholas David Butler, Romsey, GB;
Robert David Callaway, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard Eugene Salz, Reading, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Delegation of processing functions to specialized appliances in an enterprise is provided. An appliance typically comprises a combination of hardware and resident firmware that addresses needs in a computing environment, such as by providing common message transformation, integration, security, filtering and other functions. Delegation is carried out by specifying at least one XML function for front-process offloading from a server to a corresponding appliance configured to receive messages pushed towards the server, communicating management directives to the appliance for configuring the appliance to perform the specified XML function(s) according to specific requirements dynamically specified by the server and communicating instructions to the appliance so that the appliance augments received event messages with intermediate processing information based upon the front-process offloading, as received event messages pass through the appliance.