AUTOMATIC FORMAT CONVERSION

• US 20150081728A1
• Filed: 07/20/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nipendo Limited (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: Alon Rosenberg
• Inventors: ROSENBERG, Alon, STERN, Assaf
• Application Number:
  US14/335,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20150081728A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis

Abstract

A method of automatically mapping a transaction schema to a supply chain management system, comprising: receiving a XML document schema and type; retrieving a corresponding dictionary comprising unified format keys; parsing the document file; retrieving a XML tag; understanding the tag; and mapping the tag to one of said dictionary'"'"'s keys.

Claims

1. A supply chain management system comprising:

a system server comprising a central processor and a database;

a plurality of user computers communicating with the system server over a network;

said system server running a software process defining;

an interface layer configured to communicate messages and business transactions bi-directionally between said user computers and said system server; and

a services layer configured to apply business logic to said messages and business transaction and process them according to a predefined workflow of said supply chain management system, said service layer comprising dictionaries storing a unique internal format representation for each transaction field;

said plurality of user computers running client applications configured to communicate with said interface layer, said client applications comprising a configuration application configured to introduce new document schemas to the system;

said service layer comprising an automatic mapping service configured to communicate bi-directionally with said configuration application and with said dictionaries.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said automatic mapping service is configured to receive a XML transaction schema, identify tags in the XML schema, understand the identified tags and relate them to appropriate dictionary entries.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said automatic mapping service is configured to create conversion scripts for converting transaction data fields to the appropriate internal format representation.

4. A method of automatically mapping a transaction schema to a supply chain management system, comprising:

receiving a XML document schema and type;

retrieving a corresponding dictionary comprising unified format keys;

parsing the document schema;

retrieving a XML tag;

understanding the tag; and

mapping the tag to one of said dictionary'"'"'s keys.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising displaying said mapped tag and said dictionary key to a user.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein said understanding the tag comprises:

finding the tag name;

finding the tag context;

understanding the tag context; and

understanding the tag name.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said understanding the tag name comprises matching said tag name to weighted tree entries comprising similar words or phrase.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising adding said tag name to a weighted tree'"'"'s entries comprising similar words or phrase.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising creating conversion scripts for converting transaction data fields to the appropriate internal format representation.