Registry driven interoperability and exchange of documents

• US 7,047,488 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2002
• Issued: 05/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Aletty, Ashok, Clark, Michael, Holmes, Alexander, Kasi, Jayaram Rajan, Yuen, Helen S., Ingersoll, Christopher Todd, Senathi, Sathish Babu K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUDWIG, MATTHEW J
• Application Number:
  US10/199,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20040025117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,397 Days
• Field of Search: 715/523, 715/511, 715/512, 715/524, 707/4, 707/102
• US Class Current: 715/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation

Abstract

The present invention relates to systems and methods for registry driven transformation of a document exchanged between businesses or applications. More particularly, it relates to systems and protocols for using one or more commonly accessible registries to transform electronic commerce documents among dissimilar interfaces, preferably XML documents. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.

Claims

1. A computer-assisted method of selecting semantics transforms applicable to a document family, including:

maintaining a document family registry data structure, including for a particular document family

document family members, identified by library, document identifier, release version and schema type;

semantic transforms between document family members, including logic executed remotely to implement the semantic transforms;

associations of the semantic transforms with source and target document family members;

responding to requests for transforms to convert a document from a source semantic version to a target semantic version by

traversing the document family registry data structure as a directed graph and

outputting one or more sequences of transforms determined by the traversing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

maintaining the semantic transforms further includes maintaining transform success scores; and

traversing the document family registry data structure further includes calculating composite transform success scores for the sequences of transforms.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the transform success scores correspond to a fraction of fields translated verbatim from a field of the source document to a field of the target document.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the transform success scores correspond to a fraction of text in fields of the source document found verbatim in fields of the target document.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

maintaining the document family registry data structure further includes maintaining special rules for transforms to be applied corresponding to one or more participants in a document exchange; and

outputting further includes referring to privately maintained transforms, maintained separately from the document family registry data structure.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting further includes referring to privately maintained transforms, maintained separately from the document family registry data structure.