Patent ID: 7257637

Claim:
A data transforming method for a data transforming system installed between first and second information processing systems, said first information processing system transmitting request data in accordance with a first business protocol and said second information processing system returning response data to the request data in accordance with a second business protocol, said first business protocol being constituted of a format of transaction data containing data item information and data defined by the data item information and a transmission/reception procedure of transmitting request data and returning response data to the request data, the data transforming method comprising steps of: receiving request data containing a plurality of requests transmitted from said first information processing system in accordance with said first business protocol; acquiring a plurality of business protocols including the first business protocol and the second business protocol, each business protocol corresponding to the data item information of the received request data according to mapping definition information, duplicating the data item information belonging to the first business protocol, generating a plurality of request data sets by coupling the duplicated data item information with the data item information belonging to the second business protocol, and transmitting said plurality of request data sets generated to said second information processing system in accordance with said second business protocol; receiving a plurality of response data sets each returned from said second information processing system, corresponding to each of said plurality of requests and having a format defined by said second business protocol; and collecting said plurality of response data sets, transforming said plurality of response data sets into a plurality of response data sets corresponding to the plurality of requests and having a format defined by said first business protocol, and transmitting said plurality of response data sets transformed to said first information processing system in accordance with said first business protocol.