METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR CENTRALLY DEFINING AND DISTRIBUTING CONNECTION DEFINITIONS OVER A NETWORK

摘要

Connection definitions are centrally defined and distributed over a network (40). A connection is defined, including information identifying an associated service definition, an associated origination endpoint (30) and an associated destination endpoint (20) within the network (40). The connection definition is distributed from a central endpoint (10) to the origination endpoint (30) and the destination endpoint (20) via the network (40). The service defined by the service definition is implemented between the origination endpoint (30) and the destination endpoint (20), and the origination endpoint (30) and the destination endpoint (20) communicate with each other directly over the network (40).