A MULTI-BROKER CONNECTIVITY SYSTEM, AN ONLINE TRADING SYSTEM UTILIZING THE SAME, A MULTI-PROCESSING-SYSTEM NETWORKING SYSTEM, AND THE METHODS THEREFOR

摘要

Disclosed is a multi-broker connectivity system for networking to a plurality of broker systems, said connectivity system having a plurality of users, and comprising: a receiving means for receiving users' request and formatting the request into a predetermined format, said format including sender's ID and receiver's ID; a messaging means for transmitting data in said predetermined format to a predetermined receiver according to said receiver's ID; at least one processing/adapting means each adaptively interfaced to a specific broker system, for receiving request for the respective specific broker system so as to perform processing of a certain class on a received request, and returning the processing result in the same format as the corresponding request to said messaging means while roles of the sender and receiver are exchanged; a presenting means for receiving said returned result and de-formatting said result to present the result to the corresponding request sender. With such a system, as Universal Broker Connectivity (UBC) Messaging Architecture is achieved, which will produce business functionality at the front-end independent of backend technology constraints and have a middle tier completely generic and useful to all functionality.