Clients remote access to enterprise networks employing enterprise gateway servers in a centralized data center converting plurality of data requests for messaging and collaboration into a single request

An apparatus comprising:

• means for converting a plurality of data requests for messaging and collaboration data into a single higher level request in an enterprise gateway server;
• means for transmiting the higher level request over a data network;
• means for receiving the higher level request in a remote gateway server;
• means for converting the higher level request to the plurality of data from the remote gateway server to the enterprise gateway server requests;
• and
• means for providing messaging and collaboration data in response to receiving the plurality of data requests.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for converting a plurality of data requests for messaging and collaboration data into a single higher level request in an enterprise gateway server;
• means for transmiting the higher level request;
• means for receiving the higher level request;
• means for converting the higher level request to the plurality of data requests;
• means for using the converted plurality of data requests to query a messaging database that stores messaging and collaboration data corresponding to the plurality of data requests from the enterprise gateway server;
• and
• means for returning the results of the query to the enterprise gateway server.