DISTRIBUTED SERVICES FOR MULTI-ENTITY COLLABORATION

摘要

Method for communication of service requests and service results between remotely located users and service providers. Connectivity is established between service providers and a request handler, and also between users and the request handler. Service requests are received at the request handler, a service provider ID is identified from each service request, and each service request is transmitted to a unique service provider associated with the service provider ID. The service requests received by the unique service provider are entered in a queue located central to the unique service provider, the queue existing in a spreadsheet computer program being executed by the unique service provider. An individual entry in the queue is removed for performing the requested service via the spreadsheet computer program, thereby generating a result. Result packages comprising the service results are then generated and transmitted to the corresponding, requesting users.