Patent ID: 7437665
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for automating the processing of business transaction data for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions comprising: creating a Standard Exchange Format (SEF) parser that interprets the format of a corresponding SEF file, wherein the SEF file includes information relating to EDI transaction elements associated with a corresponding EDI document; generating an EDI object model for the SEF file by parsing at least the SEF file using the created SEF parser such that the EDI object model includes code that represents the data structures of the corresponding SEF file; and conveying the EDI object model so as to be utilized by a programmer to create application code to process business transaction data for EDI documents by generating a specific EDI object model instance of the EDI object model and wherein the EDI object model instance is utilized to process the business transaction data.