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Method and system for transferring information

  • US 6,889,260 B1
  • Filed: 06/01/1999
  • Issued: 05/03/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing data from a source computer application for input to a target computer application comprising:

  • receiving source data from the source computer application at a target system, said source data having an application-specific unconverted file data format of the source computer application, representation of the source data defined by a source metadata packet;

    receiving the source metadata packet corresponding to the source data at the target system, wherein said source metadata packet includes a source application definition having at least one entry comprising a standard name corresponding to at least one source application-specific name used by the source computer application and a source application-specific data format of said standard name;

    retrieving a target metadata packet of said target system, wherein said source and target metadata packets each further comprises;

    a transaction type; and

    , at least one standard process name selected from a repository of standard process names, wherein said standard name is a user selected term from a list of standard terms based on said transaction type of the source data;

    converting the source data to a file data format representation compatible with the target computer application for input therein based on mapping said target metadata packet to said source metadata packet; and

    , determining said transaction type, wherein the retrieving step includes;

    retrieving a data element from said target metadata packet corresponding to said transaction type; and

    , wherein said converting step comprises;

    matching terms of the target metadata packet with the source metadata packet for the transaction type;

    retrieving source data from a source data file; and

    , providing said retrieved source data to a target data file using target data representations for that term in said target metadata packet.

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