Abstract: An enterprise integration system is coupled to a number of legacy data sources. The data sources each use different data formats and different access methods. The integration system includes a back-end interface configured to convert input data source information to input XML documents and to convert output XML document to output data source information. A front-end interface converts the output XML documents to output HTML forms and the input HTML forms to the XML documents. A middle tier includes a rules engine and a rules database. Design tools are used to define the conversion and the XML documents. A network couples the back-end interface, the front-end interface, the middle tier, the design tools, and the data sources. Mobile agents are configured to communicate the XML documents over the network and to process the XML documents according to the rules.

Abstract: A method for distributed automatic speech recognition enables a user to request an audio web page from a speech server by using a browser of a speech client connected to the speech server via a communications network. A determination is then made whether persistent user parameters are stored for the user in a parameter file on the speech client accessible by the speech server. If false, the user parameters are generated in the speech client, and stored in the parameter file. If true, the user parameters are directly read from the parameter file by the speech server. In either case, the user parameters are set in a speech recognition engine of the speech server to perform an audio dialog between the speech client and the speech server.

Abstract: A message queuing system is provided that saves and stores messages and their state in an efficient single file on a single disk to enable rapid recovery from server failures. The single disk, single file storage system into which messages and their states are stored eliminates writes to three different disks, the data disk, the index structure disk and the log disk. The single disk, single file storage is made possible by clustering all information together in a contiguous space on the same disk. The result is that all writes are contained in one sweeping motion of the write head in which the write head moves only in one direction and only once to find the area where it needs to start writing messages and their states are stored.