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Proactively communicating information between processes through a message repository

  • US 9,235,457 B2
  • Filed: 03/27/2003
  • Issued: 01/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of interprocess communication, the method comprising:

  • a first process causing a database server to store, in a message database, a message whose content explicitly identifies an action that said first process will perform;

    said first process performing said action after causing said database server to store, in said message database, said message;

    a second process causing said database server to retrieve said message from said message database;

    wherein said second process performs a responsive action specified by the content of said message;

    wherein said first process is separate from said second process;

    wherein said first process and said second process are separate from said database server;

    wherein said action does not involve said message database;

    wherein said first process and said second process execute computer programs on one or more computing devices; and

    wherein said first process is not said action.

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