System for selectively converting a plurality of source data structures without an intermediary structure into a plurality of selected target structures

• US 5,627,972 A
• Filed: 05/03/1994
• Issued: 05/06/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Foothill Capital Corporation
• Original Assignee: RMS Electronic Commerce Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Shear, Timothy A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Harrell, Robert B.
• Application Number:
  US08/238,612
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• Field of Search: 364/DIG. 1, 364/DIG. 2, 395/200.18, 395/285, 395/286, 395/500, 395/800
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A data interchange system having a number of translators 50, 52, and 54, each adapted to translate a first message 16 to a second message 18.

Claims

1. A method to transform data from a first format to a second format comprising the steps of:

creating a quoted character value;

creating a numerical byte value;

creating a data value;

receiving said data;

reviewing said data for occurrences of said quoted character, numerical byte value, and data value;

counting said occurrences of said quoted characters, numerical byte values, and data value within said data;

assigning a priority value to each occurrence of said quoted characters, numerical byte values, and data values;

assigning each of said occurrences of quoted characters, numerical byte values, and data values to an array of variables; and

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creating said second format by arranging said variables, within said linear array, into a format arrangement according to said assigned priority values.

2. A data interchange system adapted to transform a message having a plurality of data objects arranged in a first format into a second and a third format, said system comprising:

means for receiving said message and for recognizing, extracting, and arranging said plurality of data objects in only a single structure;

second means for providing said second and third formats;

third means for selecting said plurality of said data objects in said single structure and for arranging said selected data objects into said second and third format.