Patent ID: 7917606

Claim:
A networked system of databases, comprising: a plurality of receiving server computers connected to a sending server computer via a network connection, each of the plurality of receiving server computers comprising: a receiving messaging facility configured to receive a configuration message and data messages from the sending server computer, wherein the configuration message contains message format information defining formatting of the data messages containing data updates, wherein the message format information is used to correctly extract the data updates from the data messages and comprises: (A) a message type, (B) one or more field names, (C) one or more field lengths, and (D) one or more field data types and wherein the data messages are received subsequent to the configuration message, whereby the configuration message defines formatting of the subsequently-received data messages; a database; and a receiving application configured to retrieve the messages from the receiving messaging facility, and configured to: generate a configuration file according to the configuration message received from the sending server computer, wherein the configuration file contains mapping rules for processing the subsequently-received data messages, wherein the mapping rules are established by the configuration message; and write data received in at least one of the data messages received from the sending server computer to the database according to the mapping rules.