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Mediated information flow

  • US 20050060380A1
  • Filed: 07/30/2004
  • Published: 03/17/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for mediating the flow of messages in a computer network, wherein the computer network has a cubic mediation network that includes:

  • two local point of presence (LPP) modules for interfacing between the mediation network and client programs;

    two mediator (M) modules for hosting mediation tasks;

    two mediator router (MR) modules for analyzing the content of incoming messages, each MR module routing the incoming messages to a predetermined M module in dependence upon said content; and

    two transmission proxy (TP) modules for forwarding messages to at least one of said LPP modules, wherein, in the method, incoming messages to the mediation network are propagated along a mediation cycle that comprises the steps of;

    an LPP module, addressing incoming messages to a respective one of said at least one mediator router (MR) modules;

    in said addressed MR module, analyzing the content of incoming messages and routing said messages to a predetermined mediator module in dependence upon said analyzed content;

    in said predetermined mediator module, applying the mediation task to said analyzed messages and directing mediated messages to a respective one of said TP modules; and

    in said TP module that receives said mediated messages, forwarding said mediated messages to at least one of said LPP modules.

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