Patent ID: 7437378

Claim:
In a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a user interface selection device, a method of mapping elements from diverse schema, the method comprising: displaying a table comprising three parallel columns including a first column of elements of a first markup language schema, a second column of elements of at least one second markup language schema different from the first markup language schema, and a third column of elements; selecting an element from the at least one second schema; automatically determining which elements in the first column represent an object similar to the selected element in accordance with a predetermined algorithm; automatically reducing the elements displayed in the first column to only display elements that are determined to be compatible with the selected element by said step of determining; displaying the element selected from the at least one second schema in the third column adjacent to the element of the first schema in response to a user action; and automatically generating a mapping schema between the first and second markup language schema utilizing the third column of elements.