Business to business integration via the web

• US 20040088352A1
• Filed: 04/08/2003
• Published: 05/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cyclone Commerce, Inc. (Axway Software SA)
• Original Assignee: Cyclone Commerce, Inc. (Axway Software SA)
• Inventors: Kurth, Lloyd N.
• Application Number:
  US10/410,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20040088352A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2876 Pairs of inter-processing entities at each side of the network, e.g. split proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A web services broker system is provided which provides security to existing web services. The system can be easily and transparently deployed on each side of the Internet.

Claims

1. A computer network system for exchanging information between a plurality of entities with the use the Internet and a Web service client application, comprising:

a Web service portal;

a transport coupled to the Web service portal and the Web service client application;

a server side component inserted between the Internet and the Web service portal;

a client side component inserted between the Web service client application and the Internet; and

wherein the server side and client side components permit the transport to broker communications between the Web service client application and the Web service to provide security.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the entities are trading partners.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the information is in the form of a document.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the server side component is a WSB server.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the client side component is a WSB client.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the security is selected from authentication, encryption, digital signatures, and non-repudiation of receipt.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the system provides selective exposure of the web service from a first trading partner to a second trading partner.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the server side component is configured to import a WSDL file that defines the web service, and the first trading partner selects the second trading partner for exposure to the web service client application.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the server-side component is configured to provide the WSDL file to the client side component using the transport defined for use between the first and second partners.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein when the WSDL is received by the client side component an associated service URL is modified to point to the client-side component.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the WSDL is published to a repository after the associated service URL is modified.

26. The system of claim 22, wherein the WSB server invokes the portal with HTTP and the web service client invokes the WSB client with HTTP.