Method and device for processing a message in a communication network

A device for processing a message incorporated in a node of a communication network, the message traveling on the network from a transmitter node along a path which may be closed and which comprises a plurality of nodes, the message being constituted by a plurality of distinct information blocks of which certain may be destined for different nodes, said device comprising:

• a receiving unit constructed to receive the message;
• an identification unit constructed to identify in the message the information blocks destined for the node;
• a processing unit comprising a processor constructed to process the identified information blocks to produce at least one result data item including a response destined for the transmitter node, wherein the at least one result data item is marked as a result data item by inserting a mark in the result data item, and wherein the transmitter node interprets the at least one result data item;
• a modifying unit constructed to modify the message by including in the message the at least one result data item;
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• a transmitting unit constructed to transmit the modified message to a following node along the path, wherein the receiver node is a last node in the path for which an information block contained in the message is destined, the receiver node then transmitting a response message to the transmitter node.

A device for processing an outgoing message in a communication network, the message traveling on the network from a transmitter node to a receiver node along a path which may be closed and which comprises a plurality of nodes including first and second intermediate nodes, the message being expressed in a data description language and comprising a plurality of distinct information blocks of which at least two distinct information blocks are respectively destined for the first and second intermediate nodes of the path, said device being implemented in at least both of the first and second intermediate nodes of the path and comprising in both of the first and second intermediate nodes:

• a receiving unit constructed to receive the message;
• an identification unit constructed to identify in the message the information blocks destined for the node;
• a processing unit comprising a processor constructed to process the identified information blocks to produce at least one result data item including a response destined for the transmitter node, wherein the at least one result data item is marked as a result data item by inserting a mark in the result data item, and wherein the transmitter node interprets the at least one result data item;
• a modifying unit constructed to modify the message by including in the message the at least one result data item;
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• a transmitting unit constructed to transmit the modified message to a following node along the path, wherein the receiver node is a last node in the path for which an information block contained in the message is destined, the receiver node then transmitting a response message to the transmitter node.