Patent ID: 7493415
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of selecting a message transformation in a distributed message processing system, said system including message transformation means for transforming an input message in any of a plurality of formats recognised by one component of said system into an output message in one of a plurality of different formats recognised by another component of said system and a message log for storing representative samples of messages processed by the respective system components; said selection tool comprising: means for determining the compatibility of each field of each of said plurality of input message formats with one or more fields of said plurality of output message formats by comparing at least one of a name of each field of said plurality of input message formats with names of fields in the representative samples of messages and a type of each field of said plurality of input message formats with types of fields in the representative samples of messages; means for analysing the message fields in the representative samples of messages stored in said message log to get a statistical analysis of the values of the message fields by examining values of data in the message fields of the representative samples of messages in an input message format and values of data in the message fields of the representative samples of messages for the plurality of output message formats; and selection means responsive to said compatibility determination and said statistical analysis to select the best fit output message field into which to transform a given input message field.