Patent ID: 7099350

Claim:
A method for transferring information between first and second systems with dissimilar first and second database structures, respectively, comprising the steps of: extracting data from the first system, wherein the data is comprised of a plurality of records, with each record including at least one index; routing the extracted data from the first system to a first conversion server; at the first conversion server, converting the data from a format compatible with the first database structure to an intermediate format, the first conversion server operable to convert an index compatible with the first database structure to an intermediate index that is relationally associated with the index in the first database structure; routing the data in the intermediate format to a second conversion server; at the second conversion server, converting the data from the intermediate format to a format compatible with the second database structure by converting the intermediate index to an index compatible with the second database structure; and storing the data converted at the second conversion server in the second system.