Patent ID: 6782403
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An inter-application data transmitting system for exchanging data among a plurality of applications interconnected over a network, the plurality of applications each storing the data in a predetermined application dependent data format, the inter-application data transmitting system comprising an application intermediary unit for mediating the data to be transmitted between the network and one of the plurality of applications,wherein the application intermediary unit includes, an application control unit for controlling a transmission of the data between the one of the plurality of applications and the application intermediary unit, an access procedure rule memory for storing an access procedure rule which defines a procedure to be used for gaining access to the data stored in the one of the plurality of applications, an access procedure control unit, controlled by the application control unit, for gaining access to the data stored in the one of the plurality of applications in accordance with the access procedure rule stored in the access procedure rule memory, a data format conversion rule memory for storing a data exchange format which is a data format predefined to be used for exchanging the data among the plurality of applications interconnected over the network, and further storing a data format conversion rule to be used for converting at least one of an application dependent data format of the data stored in the one of the plurality of applications which is accessed by the access procedure control unit into the data exchange format and the data exchange format into the application dependent format of the data stored in the one of the plurality of applications, a data format conversion unit for converting the data from one data format to another based on the data format conversion rule stored in the data format conversion rule memory, a communication control rule memory for storing a communication control rule which defines a communication rule, and a communication control unit for controlling a transmission over the network of converted data in the data exchange format which is converted by the data format conversion unit based on the communication control rule stored in the communication control rule memory.