Patent ID: 6499036
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An article of digital data storage media for use in a server computer mediating between object oriented computer application programs and disparate data sources, comprising:instruction code for receiving a primary transaction request; instruction code for correlating the received primary transaction request with a set of one or more secondary transaction requests; instruction code for initiating communication of a one of said set of secondary transaction requests to a corresponding data source; instruction code for receiving a result from said corresponding data source, wherein said result comprises data items related by said data source according to a first pattern; instruction code for constructing a response to said primary transaction request using the received result, wherein said constructing includes relating a plurality of said data items according to a second pattern, said second pattern being independent of said first pattern; and instruction code for initiating communication of said response in reply to said primary transaction request.