Patent ID: 7882070

Claim:
A method for Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) data migration comprising: extracting data from a UDDI compliant source repository along with a UDDI entity key and a user name associated with the data; importing the extracted data into a UDDI compliant destination repository; determining if the UDDI entity key and the user name already exists in the destination repository; preserving the UDDI entity key in the destination repository during the import of the extracted data into the destination repository if the UDDI entity key does not already exist in the destination repository, else generating a new UDDI entity key to be associated with the imported data if the UDDI entity key already exists in the destination repository, the generating of the new UDDI entity key comprising mapping the UDDI entity key associated with the extracted data to the new UDDI entity key associated with the imported data; and preserving the user name in the destination repository during the import of the extracted data into the destination repository, if the user name does not already exist in the destination repository or if the user name exists and designates the same user as the one associated with the extracted data, else generating a new user name to be associated with the imported data, if the user name associated with the extracted data already exists in the destination repository and does not designate the same user as the one associated with the extracted data, the generating the new user name comprising mapping the user name associated with the extracted data to the new user name associated with the imported data.