Abstract: An apparatus and method for conveying contextually relevant information to a wireless client (112) is disclosed. More particularly, an emitter (108) transmits a diffuse infrared signal to a client (112) having an IrDA infrared communication interface (130). Emitter (108) communicates with client (112) by making a link layer in emitter (108) compliant with an IrDA link layer running on client (112). To perform communication, data is received at emitter (108) from a service provider (102). The data is formatted into an IrDA compliant diffuse infrared signal and transmitted to client (112). Client (112) receives the data and parses it to extract contextually relevant information contained therein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for providing access to embedded processes as a network service Software proxies within the server route message traffic to one or more embedded processes. A server proxy and an embedded process handling proxy establish the connection between server and embedded processes. The embedded process handling proxy and/or the server proxy map the external identifiers to internal identifier corresponding to one or more embedded processes. The embedded process handling proxy abstracts the network processing away from the embedded processes and allows them to remain dedicated to their specialized functions.