Patent ID: 8838634
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of formatting data, comprising receiving an indication of a specified data to be formatted between a format of a database and a format external to database; receiving a formatter code from a third-party entity system configured to handle the format external to the database, wherein the third-party entity system is external to a system of the database and the third-party system external to the system of the database provided program code of the formatter code; and using a formatter of the database to format the specified data between the format of the database and the format external to the database, wherein formatting the specified data includes changing the format of the specified data, the formatter has been integrated with the database using the received formatter code defined external to the database and the specified data is stored in the database in the format of the database and the formatter code defined external to the database and received from the third-party system external to the system of the database has been validated for security before being authorized to be utilized to integrate the formatter with the database.