Migration and transformation of data structures

• US 20090055421A1
• Filed: 08/30/2005
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Veit Florian Lier
• Original Assignee: Veit Florian Lier
• Inventors: Lier, Veit Florian
• Application Number:
  US11/991,069
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055421A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/88 Mark-up to mark-up conversion conversion for visualization in web browsing G06F16/9577

Abstract

The invention relates to a functional unit for the migration and transformation of data structures from at least one source system into data structures of at least one target system comprising at least one import filter and at least one export filter. The at least one import filter is for transformation of a data structure prepared by the source system in a source-system dependent format into a universal description format. The at least one export filter is for transformation of the data structure in the universal description format into a target-system dependent format and to provide the same for the target system.

Claims

1. Functional unit for the migration and transformation of data structures from at least one source system into data structures of at least one target system, which comprises at least one import filter and at least one export filter, the at least one import filter being designed to transform a data structure provided by the source system and in a source system-dependent format into a universal description format and the at least one export filter being designed so as to transform the data structure which is in the universal description format into a target system dependent format and to provide it to the target system.

2. Functional unit according to claim 1 which is suitable for the two way migration and transformation of data structures of the at least one source system and data structures of the at least one target system.

3. Functional unit according to claim 1 which comprises a universal description frame with a class library and a basic library.

4. Functional unit according to claim 3 in which the basic library is designed to define global objects and to provide global functions and system-dependent classes, the system-dependent classes being designed to make use of these global objects and functions as standard functions.

5. Functional unit according to claim 3 wherein the basic library represents at least one basic class, the basic class representing basic functions for interpreting files and for conversion into a class model.

6. Functional unit according to claim 3, wherein the description frame is designed to generate a source code for the target system dependent data structure from structural information stored in a configuration table.

7. Functional unit according to one of the preceding claims which is designed to carry out a process according to claim 10.

19. Process according to claim 10, which is carried out with a functional unit (3) according to claim 1.

20. Computer programme with programme coding means for carrying out all the steps of a process according to claim 10 when the computer programme is run on a computer or a corresponding computing unit, particularly in the functional unit according to claim 1.

21. Computer programme product with programme coding means which are stored on a computer readable data carrier for carrying out all the steps of a process according to claim 10 when the computer programme is run on a computer or a corresponding computing unit, particularly in a functional unit according to claim 1.

8. Transformation system for the migration and transformation of data structures from at least one source system into data structures of at least one target system, which comprises at least one source system, at least one target system and a functional unit connected between the at least one source system and the at least one target system, the functional unit having at least one import filter and at least one export filter, the at least one import filter being designed to transform a data structure provided by the source system and in a source system-dependent format into a universal description format, the at least one export filter being designed so as to transform the data structure which is in the universal description format into a target system dependent format and to provide it to the target system.

9. Description frame which is designed for the migration and transformation of data structures from at least one source system into data structures of at least one target system, and is designed to represent a data structure which has been prepared by the at least one source system, which is in a source system dependent format and has been transformed by at least one import filter, in a universal description format and to transform the data structure which is represented in the universal description format into a target system dependent format via at least one export filter.

10. Process for the migration and transformation of data structures from at least one source system, into data structures of at least one target system wherein the data structure provided by the at least one source system and present in a source system-dependent format is transformed by means of at least one import filter into a data structure which is present in a universal description format and wherein the data structure which is in the universal description format is transformed by means of at least one export filter into a data structure which is in a target system-dependent format and is provided to the at least one target system.

11. Process according to claim 10, wherein the data structure in the source system dependent format is broken down into structural elements.

12. Process according to claim 11, wherein the structural elements are compared with a configuration table and identified.

13. Process according to claim 10, wherein a new structural element is automatically incorporated in the configuration table.

14. Process according to claim 10, wherein a check is made as to whether structural elements are translatable.

15. Process according claim 10, wherein structural elements are marked.

16. Process according to claim 10, wherein the data structure present in the source system-dependent format is converted into a hierarchical class model and made available to a processing platform.

17. Process according to claim 10, wherein the data structure present in the universal description format is validated against the at least one export filter and recorded.

18. Process according to claim 10, wherein a programming interface is dynamically generated from information saved in the configuration table.