Patent ID: 7120636

Claim:
A method of communicating data between databases having different formats, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first computer, a second computer, and a server in a distributed computer network, the server configured to send and receive data packets including records having different formats between the first computer and the second computer, the server configured to convert a record format of a record received from the first computer into a record format of a record of the second computer, and vice versa, wherein the server includes: a packet sniffer configured to separate from a first data packet a first record in a first format and a first transmitter-receiver layer, the packet sniffer also configured to separate from a second data packet a second record in a second format and a second transmitter-receiver layer; a transmitter-receiver conversion matrix configured to scan the first transmitter-receiver layer and the second transmitter-receiver layer; and a convert function configured to use at least one conversion routine for converting the first record in the first format into a first record in a second format and/or for converting the second record in the second format into the second record in the first format, with each layer and/or the second conversion based on the scanning of the first transmitter-receiver transmitter-receiver layer, respectively.