Document exchange framework for automated extensible markup language data in an e-procurement system and method
First Claim
1. An electronic purchasing and procurement system comprising:
- an applications content configuration module automatically processing electronic purchase requisition applications content over multiple back-end resource servers comprising a plurality of catalogs containing descriptions of goods and services pertinent to a type of procurement environment;
a database storing data descriptors describing items contained in said catalogs, said database further storing data object and attributes pertinent to said electronic purchase requisition applications content; and
an applications content transformation service, in response to receiving a particular purchase request associated with a particular purchasing requisitioner, for dynamically presenting transformed content in a format suitable to said purchasing requisitioner, wherein said applications content transformation service is also for transforming content to said particular purchasing requisitioner for presentation thereto.
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Abstract
In an electronic procurement system having a portal server, an Extensible Markup Language (XML) content integration and transformation method and system. The XML content integration and transformation system includes logic for retrieving an “Open Buying on the Internet (OBI)” compliant XML file from a database which is then formatted in response to an electronic purchasing request over the Internet. In one embodiment of the present invention, the client aware XML content transformation system receives an OBI XML file and uses this information to automatically search for data objects related to the OBI XML file content from a database on the Internet and translates the content into a format suitable for internal processing by the XML content integration and transformation logic and delivers it to the purchasing requisitioner over the Ineternet.
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30 Claims
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1. An electronic purchasing and procurement system comprising:
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an applications content configuration module automatically processing electronic purchase requisition applications content over multiple back-end resource servers comprising a plurality of catalogs containing descriptions of goods and services pertinent to a type of procurement environment;
a database storing data descriptors describing items contained in said catalogs, said database further storing data object and attributes pertinent to said electronic purchase requisition applications content; and
an applications content transformation service, in response to receiving a particular purchase request associated with a particular purchasing requisitioner, for dynamically presenting transformed content in a format suitable to said purchasing requisitioner, wherein said applications content transformation service is also for transforming content to said particular purchasing requisitioner for presentation thereto. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An electronic purchasing and procurement request Extensible Markup Language (XML) content transformer in an electronic purchasing and procurement system, comprising:
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a server;
a plurality of catalogs of goods and services residing in a database in said server, each of said catalogs of comprising unique goods and services identification parameters; and
a procurement and purchasing Extensible Markup Language (XML) content provider for retrieving XML data from a source external to said server in response to a particular purchase requisition content access request from a particular purchase order of a plurality of purchase requisitioners requesting information defined in said goods and services identification parameters. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A Document Exchange (XDOC) framework for processing in-bound and out-bound documents in an electronic procurement system, comprising:
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an Extensible Markup Language (XML) content configuration file module for providing XML content gathered from a plurality of in-bound documents in a coherent and cohesive markup format and applied to out-bound documents responsive to said in-bound documents;
a conduit file module coupled to said XML configuration file module for receiving files in a first XML format and generating corresponding files in a second XML format; and
a persistent object frammer (POF) module coupled to said XML content configuration file module for maintaining data persistence of files stored in a database external to said XDOC framework in said electronic procurement system, wherein said files stored in said database correspond to said XML content in said in-bound documents and said out-bound documents respectively. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method for providing Extensible Markup Language (XML) content from a database to a purchase order request in an electronic purchasing network, said method comprising:
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receiving a purchasing request cataloged in a plurality of in-bound documents by said electronic purchasing network, said purchasing request comprising goods, services and supplier information defining purchasing parameters specific and unique to a particular purchasing professional;
retrieving XML content in response to said purchasing request from data sources external and internal to said electronic purchasing network; and
transforming said retrieved XML content into appropriate content suitable for an underlying markup language of an Internet browser used by said purchasing professional. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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