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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2008
Richard S. Bice, Severna Park, MD (US);
Jon P. Brusseau, Clinton Township, MI (US);
Richard L. Lacourse, Laurel, MD (US);
Herbert T. Raffaele, Springfield, VA (US);
Richard S. Bice, Severna Park, MD (US);
Jon P. Brusseau, Clinton Township, MI (US);
Richard L. Lacourse, Laurel, MD (US);
Herbert T. Raffaele, Springfield, VA (US);
Verizon Business Network Services Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and process for resolving messages from application components to back-end systems. The system comprises a standardized message definition which uses a tagged field format through which application components communicate to a message handler. The message handler applies rules that define actions to be taken and recipients of information based on the contents of the message. The rules may be pre-defined by a customer associated with an application component generating a message, based on common rules applied to components generally, or based upon service rules associated with the service provider, such as level of service subscriptions or other characteristics, or based on a combination of any or all of the above bases. By utilizing published message formats, the present invention provides a platform independent framework for exposing application hosting back-end systems to customer applications.