Patent Document ID: 8234312
Application ID: 11363234

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for schema mapping and the transformation of data associated with first and second documents, the method comprising: retrieving at least a portion of the first document; generating one or more labels representing schema information for the at least a portion of the first document based on a schema of the first document; displaying simultaneously to a user, with a graphical user interface (GUI), a representation of the schema of the first document comprising the at least a portion of the first document and the one or more labels representing schema information for the at least a portion of the first document and a representation of a schema of the second document within cells of a spreadsheet application, the first and second documents having different schemas; acquiring, from the user, at least one association usable to map at least a first element of the first document to at least a second element of the second document, wherein each of the first and second elements contain layout data; and storing the association.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein acquiring further comprises: indicating a suggested association between a source element of the first document and a target element of the second document based on one or more stored associations between at least one instance of the schema of the first document and at least one instance of the schema of the second document.