Patent ID: 7283988

Claim:
A method for generating a defined transaction process for connecting on a system between a user's workstation and one of a plurality of destination devices, wherein the destination devices each operate on different physical code systems such that commands to each of the different devices will not be commonly recognized therebetween, comprising the steps of: defining as logical steps the logical sequence of commands that is required for a user to interface with a select one of the destination devices in accordance with the defined transaction process; and creating the physical code with the system necessary to effect the logical steps thereon for each of the commands necessary for the logical steps by substituting blocks of predetermined physical code for each of the defined commands as a function of the destination device on which the command is to be carried out in the logical steps, the substituted code distributed throughout the system between the user's workstation and the select one of the destination devices such that the user can perform the transaction process on the system by transmitting commands that will be recognized by the receiving one of the destination devices and the received command mapped to the operation thereof with the substituted blocks of predetermined physical code.