Information processing apparatus and information processing method, network system, recording medium, and computer program

An information processing apparatus for processing a transmission message among a plurality of sites that are connected to one another via a network, comprising:

• a message broker that commits to an application processing of data that becomes necessary when message conversion is performed among the respective sites;
• a message translator that in response to the arrival of the field serving as a trigger in a message format performs mutual conversion between the message formats according to a prescribed conditional sentence;
• a message router that according to a prescribed piece of identification information contained in a message adds a destination address to the message;
• a B2B connector that provides a message exchange interface between the system and a site outside the system;
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• a gateway that provides a message exchange interface between the system and a local site inside the system.

An information processing method processing a transmission message among a plurality of sites that are connected to one another via a network, comprising:

• receiving a message to thereby execute a prescribed piece of reception processing;
• accumulating rules therein for executing pieces of message processing;
• executing message conversion processing according to the rules accumulated by said step of accumulating rules;
• and
• executing a prescribed piece of transmission processing of the post-conversion message.

An information processing method for processing a transmission message among a plurality of sites that are connected to one another via a network, comprising:

• a message brokering step that commits to an application processing of data that becomes necessary when message conversion is performed among the respective sites;
• a message translating step that in response to the arrival of the field serving as a trigger in a message format performs mutual conversion between the message formats according to a prescribed conditional sentence;
• a message routing step that according to a prescribed piece of identification information contained in the message adds a destination address to the message;
• a B2B connecting step that provides a message exchange interface between the system and a site outside the system;
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• a mutual connection step that provides a message exchange interface between the system and a local site inside the system.

A network system including a plurality of sites each two of which are connected to each other via a communication network, wherein message exchange between arbitrary sites are controlled by a prescribed server, and wherein the network system, as its interior processing parts on said prescribed server, the network system comprises:

• a message reception part that receives a message to thereby execute a prescribed piece of reception processing;
• a rule accumulation part that accumulates rules therein for executing pieces of message processing;
• a message conversion part that according to the rules accumulated in said rule accumulation part executes message conversion processing;
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• a message transmission part that executes a prescribed piece of transmission processing of the post-conversion message.

A network system including a plurality of sites each two of which are connected to each other via a communication network, wherein message exchange between arbitrary sites is controlled by a prescribed server, and wherein the network system, as its interior processing parts on said prescribed server, the network system comprises:

• a message broker that commits to a prescribed application on the server processing of data that becomes necessary when message conversion is performed between the sites;
• a message translator that in response to the arrival of the field serving as a trigger in a message format performs mutual exchange between the message formats according to a prescribed conditional sentence;
• a message router that according to a prescribed piece of identification information contained in a message adds a destination address to the message;
• a B2B connector that provides a message exchange interface between the system and a site outside the system;
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• a gateway that provides a message exchange interface between the system and a local site inside the system.

A recording medium having physically stored in a computer-readable form a computer software that has been described so that the processing of a transmission message among a plurality of sites connected to one another via a network may be executed on a computer system, wherein the computer software comprises:

• a message reception step that receives a message to thereby execute a prescribed piece of reception processing;
• a rule accumulation step that accumulates rules therein for executing the message processing;
• a message conversion step that according to a corresponding one of the rules accumulated by the rule accumulation step executes message conversion processing;
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• a message transmission step that executes a prescribed piece of transmission processing of the post-conversion message.

A computer program for executing on a computer system the processing of a transmission message among a plurality of sites connected to one another via a network, comprising:

• a message reception routine that receives a message to thereby execute a prescribed piece of reception processing;
• a rule accumulation routine that accumulates rules therein for executing the message processing;
• a message conversion routine that according to a corresponding one of the rules accumulated by said rule accumulation step executes message conversion processing;
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• a message transmission routine that executes a prescribed piece of transmission processing of the post-conversion message.

An information processing apparatus for processing a signal including message information, comprising:

• means for receiving said signal to thereby execute a prescribed piece of reception processing;
• means for accumulating rules therein, which must be used for processing message information included in said received signal;
• means for executing said message information conversion processing using rules accumulated by said rule accumulation means;
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• means for executing a prescribed piece of transmission processing of said post-conversion message information.

An information processing method for processing a signal including message information, comprising the steps for:

• receiving said signal to thereby execute a prescribed piece of reception processing thereof;
• accumulating rules in a rule accumulation part, which must be used for processing message information included in said received signal;
• executing conversion processing of said message information using rules accumulated in said rule accumulation part;
• and
• executing a prescribed piece of reception processing of said post-conversion message information.