Patent ID: 6711624
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A text data exchange process implemented by a computer system for transferring a block of text data from a source host having an internal source data format, to a destination host having in internal destination data format different from the source data format, said process comprising the steps of:providing a source driver capable of extracting a block of text data from the source host and converting the format of said block of text data from the source data format to an intermediate data format by comparing characteristics of said source data format to sets of data format characteristics stored in a memory space of the computer system to determine if a predetermined relationship exists between said characteristics of said source data format and a particular one of said sets; and if said predetermined relationship exists, accessing a source driver associated with the particular one of said sets from a memory space of the computer system; using the provided source driver to extract a block of text data from the source host and to convert the format of the block of text data from the source data format to said intermediate data format; temporarily storing the converted block of text data in an intermediate memory storage location; providing a destination driver capable of converting the format of said block of text data from said intermediate data format to the destination data format; and using said destination driver to convert the format of the converted block of text data from said intermediate data format to the destination data format, and to insert the transformed block of text data into the destination host.