Patent Document ID: 6151608
Application ID: 09056360

Base Claim:
1. An automated computer-implemented method for migrating source data from at least one source to at least one destination table of a database having a schema without a user having to write computer code, the method comprising the steps of: defining patterns which describe format and content of the source data; applying the patterns to the source data to create transformed data; associating migration rules based on the schema with the patterns to generate a set of instructions that define migration paths; and loading the transformed data in a sequence into the at least one destination table based on the set of instructions, the at least one destination table having a defined format and destination fields, wherein the step of loading is automatically sequenced based on the migration rules so that referential integrity is maintained.

---

Claim 2:
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of loading the data from the at least one source into at least one temporary table having source fields.