Patent ID: 8775446

Claim:
In a situation wherein at least one client provides documents for data processing by at least one business process provider, the business process providers process and/or store data from the documents in provider formats defined by provider format fields, and the clients receive the processed data in client formats defined by client format fields, a method for facilitating the data processing, the method comprising a computer system performing the steps of: automatically defining a normative format based on analysis of client format fields instantiated in a set of documents, the normative format defined by normative format fields; for each of at least two client formats: receiving a version of one or more documents in the client format; receiving a corresponding version of the document in the normative format or the provider format; comparing data in the corresponding versions of the same document; and based on the comparison, automatically mapping between client format fields and normative format fields; and using the normative format as an intermediary for mapping between the provider formats and the client formats.