Patent ID: 8010703

Claim:
A method of operating a distributed processing system to provide data conversion services, comprising: receiving a request from a requesting device for a data conversion of requested data; sending to a massively parallel distributed network (MPDN) server a type of the requesting device, an identity of the requesting device, the requested data, and a type of the data conversion, to enable the MPDN server to distribute the type of the requesting device, the identity of the requesting device, the requested data, and the type of the data conversion to one or more client systems to complete the data conversion of the requested data; and enabling the one or more client systems to communicate a completed data conversion result directly to the requesting device, wherein the requesting device is configured to receive the completed data conversion result and at least one additional completed data conversion result, and wherein the requesting device is configured to assemble the completed data conversion result and the at least one additional completed data conversion result into a converted data set corresponding to the requested data.