Process for creating a trading partner profile
First Claim
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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Abstract
A function in an application integrator system for business-to-business e-commerce automatically creates trading partner profiles during translation stages. The function is activated by an exception event auto-create flag for an interworking standard being set to auto-create. Also, each standard has interchange, functional group, and message templates. These templates are used to extract data from the inbound document and automatically populate a profile record for the sending trading partner.
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13 Claims
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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:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13)
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11. 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:
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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, and in which;
automatic creation of a profile is initiated by an exception event being raised, and reading a set of exception flags to determine if an auto-creation flag is set, and the system reads an interchange template to determine data to be extracted from an interchange envelope, a functional group template to determine data to be extracted from a functional group envelope, and a message template to determine data to be extracted from a message envelope. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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