Patent ID: 8151189

Claim:
A method for providing an automated application interface, comprising: receiving a first set of data; using one or more wizards associated with one or more applications to receive first input used to perform one or more software interface operations, wherein the one or more software interface operations manipulate the first set of data between data analysis software and database software; verifying successful performance of the one or more software interface operations; for each software interface operation that is successfully performed, capturing information associated with the first input, and using the captured information to automatically generate an API XML template data store; receiving a manual update to one or more API XML template data stores, wherein the manual update identifies a subsequent set of data; receiving second input in a text editor manipulating a text file, wherein the text editor is a separate application from the one or more applications associated with the one or more wizards, wherein the second input includes textual commands for executing one or more API XML template data stores and identifies an execution sequence for one or more API XML template data stores, wherein the textual commands include an operation identifier and information identifying an API XML template data store associated with the operation identifier, and wherein the execution sequence is identified based on an ordering of the textual commands in the text file; receiving the identified subsequent set of data; and automatically executing the one or more API XML template data stores in the identified execution sequence to perform software interface and data analysis operations on the identified subsequent set of data.