Patent ID: 7472137

Claim:
A computer readable medium containing a COBOL mapping system for embedding a COBOL Copy Book including group items and elementary items into an ontology model including classes and properties, the COBOL mapping system comprising: a first data construct usable to map at least one COBOL group item within a COBOL Copy Book to at least one class of an ontology model; a second data construct usable to map at least one COBOL elementary item within the COBOL Copy Book to at least one of: at least one property of the ontology model or a composition of properties of the ontology model; and a third data construct comprising a first query referring to the ontology model, wherein the first query is expressed in an ontology language; and a fourth data construct comprising a second query referring to a data schema embedded within the ontology model, wherein the first data construct and the second data construct were used to convert the first query into the second query, wherein the data schema relates to the at least one COBOL group item, and wherein the second query is expressed in a data schema language associated with COBOL.