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Process for creating a trading partner profile

  • US 20020082972A1
  • Filed: 12/27/2000
  • Published: 06/27/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for processing an inbound document received from a trading partner in a business-to-business electronic commerce data processing system, the method comprising the steps of:

  • storing templates for automatically creating trading partner profiles, receiving an inbound document from a trading partner, determining if a profile for said trading partner is stored in a profile database, and if no such profile is stored, automatically creating a profile by;

    retrieving a template associated with the inbound document;

    reading the template to determine what data is to be extracted from the inbound document and extracting said data; and

    creating a profile record for the trading partner in the profile database and populating said profile record with said extracted data.

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