Patent ID: 6339773
Filing Date: 2002-01-15
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An E-commerce system generating revenues by providing a data extraction service for an end user comprising the method:receiving at said data extracion service a request from said end user comprising a database query to a data supplier; said data extracton service providing a graphical user interface to said end user, said graphical user interface requesting at least data output formatting requirements; said data extraction service generating a java agent based on at least said database query and formatting requirements; said data extraction service communicating said java agent to said end user; said end user implementing locally said java agent to extract data from said data supplier, said data further comprising multiple first data sets that are joined into a second data set, said second data set returned to said end user in said format specified, and said data exaction service billing said end user for use of the created java agents.