Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to discover and integrate applications in an application router framework. The discovery operation includes receiving a registration notification for an application on a network, adding information describing the application to a repository into a data structure and publishing the data structure onto an application router. The association operations include querying one or more application routers on an application network for meta-data and other information on applications, exchanging the meta-data and other information between the application routers and associating the applications together automatically using their respective application protocols.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2003
Date of Patent:
October 27, 2009
Assignee:
Cast Iron Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
George M. Scott, Nikhyl P. Singhal, Samir G. Mitra