MESSAGE ROUTING SYSTEM FOR ENTERPRISE WIDE ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION

摘要

An enterprise wide electronic commerce system allows trading partners (134, 136, 138) to act as participants in a complex trading process. Participants communicate with one another by joining conversations that are hosted in a collaboration space and managed by a collaboration hub (132). An embodiment of the invention includes a message routing mechanism for a collaboration system, comprising a collaboration hub (132) hosting a collaboration space capable of receiving and sending messages between participants, and a messaging protocol that allows the collaboration hub (132) to determine the status of a conversation and its participants.