System and method for world wide web based mapping of multiple system name spaces

• US 20020103828A1
• Filed: 01/26/2001
• Published: 08/01/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ABB Automation GmbH (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: ABB Automation GmbH (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Argentieri, Paolo, Kupiec, Ronald A., Rochow, Jeff J.
• Application Number:
  US09/770,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20020103828A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/513
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A web based name resolution service that associates one or more named entities in a first system with the corresponding names for those entities in one or more target systems. A XML document created in the first system is transmitted in a session and over a connection and protocol to a web server which activates an active server page. An object is launched that provides access to a database that contains the relationship between the name for the named entities and the corresponding name for the entities in the target system. A new XML document that contains the corresponding names is created and returned to the first system during the session and over the connection and the protocol that transmitted the XML document from the first system to the web server.

Claims

1. A method for associating one or more named entities in a first system with the corresponding names for said named entities in one or more target systems comprising the steps of:

(f) creating in said first system a XML document containing a name for said one or more named entities;

(g) transmitting said XML document in a session and over a connection and a protocol to a web server;

(h) activating an active server page executing in the environment of said web server;

(i) launching an object providing access to a database containing at least a relationship between said name for said one or more named entities and said corresponding names for said one or more named entities in said one or more target systems; and

(j) creating a new XML document containing said corresponding names and returning said new document to said first system during said session and over said connection and said protocol that transmitted said XML document.

2. A method for associating one or more named entities in a first system with the corresponding names for said entities in one or more target systems comprising the steps of:

(e) creating in said first system a XML document containing a name for said one or more named entities;

(f) activating an active server page executing in the environment of a web server to which said XML document is transmitted in a session and over a connection and a protocol;

(g) launching an object providing access to a database containing at least a relationship between said name for said one or more named entities and said corresponding names for said one or more named entities in said one or more target systems; and

(h) creating a new XML document containing said corresponding names and returning said new document to said first system during said session and over said connection and said protocol that transmitted said XML document.

3. Apparatus for associating one or more named entities in a first system with the corresponding names for said named entities in one or more target systems, said first system for creating a XML document containing a name for said one or more named entities, said apparatus comprising:

(c) a web server for receiving said XML document which is transmitted in a session and over a connection and a protocol to said web server; and

(d) said web server for;

(iv) activating an active server page executing in the environment of said web server when said XML document is received by said web server;

(v) launching an object providing access to a database containing at least a relationship between said name for said one or more named entities and said corresponding names for said one or more named entities in said one or more target systems; and

(vi) creating a new XML document containing said corresponding names and returning said new document to said first system during said session and over said connection and said protocol that transmitted said XML document.

4. In combination:

(e) a first system having one or more named entities;

(f) one or more target systems having corresponding names for said one or more name entities;

said first system for creating a XML document containing a name for said one or more named entities,

(g) a web server for receiving said XML document which is transmitted in a session and over a connection and a protocol to said web server; and

(h) said web server for;

(j) activating an active server page executing in the environment of said web server when said XML document is received by said web server;

(iv) launching an object providing access to a database containing at least a relationship between said name for said one or more named entities and said corresponding names for said one or more named entities in said one or more target systems; and

(v) creating a new XML document containing said corresponding names and returning said new document to said first system during said session and over said connection and said protocol that transmitted said XML document.