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Method, system, and program for translating and interfacing between data pools and product information management (PIM) systems

  • US 7,865,403 B2
  • Filed: 12/12/2007
  • Issued: 01/04/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

  • generating, in a computer readable medium, an element mapping, for each of a plurality of data pools, mapping user elements and attributes to the data pool elements and attributes, wherein the data pools maintain product information;

    generating, in the computer readable medium, a message mapping, for each of the plurality of data pools, mapping user messages and their parameters to data pool messages and their parameters; and

    maintaining, for each of the plurality of data pools, code specific to the data pool and user, in the computer readable medium, enabled to cause operations comprising receiving a first document including user elements and messages and mapping the user elements and messages in the first document to a second document including data pool elements and attributes corresponding to the user elements and messages in the first document by using the element mapping to map a first definition of user elements and their attributes in the first document to a second definition of the specified data pool elements and their attributes in the second document that is transmitted to the specified data pool.

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