Patent ID: 6889260
Filing Date: 2005-05-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of providing data from a source computer application for input to a target computer application comprising: receiving source data from the source computer application at a target system, said source data having an application-specific unconverted file data format of the source computer application, representation of the source data defined by a source metadata packet; receiving the source metadata packet corresponding to the source data at the target system, wherein said source metadata packet includes a source application definition having at least one entry comprising a standard name corresponding to at least one source application-specific name used by the source computer application and a source application-specific data format of said standard name; retrieving a target metadata packet of said target system, wherein said source and target metadata packets each further comprises: determining said transaction type, wherein the retrieving step includes: retrieving a data element from said target metadata packet corresponding to said transaction type; and, wherein said converting step comprises: matching terms of the target metadata packet with the source metadata packet for the transaction type; retrieving source data from a source data file; and, providing said retrieved source data to a target data file using target data representations for that term in said target metadata packet.