Patent Document ID: 20130204910
Application ID: 13368175
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, for converting extensible markup language (XML) to web ontology language (OWL), the method comprising: receiving one or more XML documents; receiving a plurality of XML schema documents; performing, by the computing device, model extraction using the plurality of XML schema documents, the model extraction comprising: performing schema consolidation on the plurality of XML schema documents to generate a consolidated XML schema document, the performing schema consolidation comprising: merging the plurality of XML schema documents to create a merged XML schema document; reorganizing the merged XML schema document comprising resolving internal references; and removing include elements and import elements in the reorganized merged XML schema document; and generating, using the consolidated XML schema document, an OWL model ontology; performing, by the computing device, instance generation using the one or more XML documents and the plurality of XML schema documents to create an OWL instance ontology; and outputting, by the computing device, the OWL model ontology and the OWL instance ontology.