Patent 7640348 was granted and assigned to Corel Corporation on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A gateway module for managing functionality for one or more web services is provided. The web services gateway module comprises a client application interface unit for receiving communication from a client application over a standard protocol, a communication processor for processing the communication for a web service, and a web services interface unit for delegating the processed communication to the web service.