Patent Document ID: 8245129
Application ID: 11929302

Base Claim:
1. A method in a computing system for performing automated electronic replication of a first directory data repository in a first data format to a second directory data repository in a second data format, wherein the first data format is different from the second data format, comprising: providing and storing in a memory of a computing system an XSLT definition, the XSLT definition comprising a plurality of rules for transforming directory data in the first data format to a representation in the second data format; upon detecting a change to at least one entry in the first directory data repository, automatically invoking an XSLT processor to retrieve the stored XSLT definition and process the XSLT definition to automatically generate, in the second data format, a log of the change to the at least one entry; on a periodic basis, providing the log of the change to the at least one entry to an application service associated with the second directory data repository such that the change to the at least one entry in the first directory data repository can be automatically replicated in the second directory data repository in the second format; and wherein the first directory data repository uses an LDAP protocol and the second directory data repository uses an Active Directory protocol and the method performs automatic replication of an LDAP directory to an Active Directory directory.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: parsing the XSLT definition, wherein the parsing of the XSLT definition is performed only at initialization time of a plug-in that performs the method.