Lockheed Martin Corporation

Russell Hawkins

Thomas Marso

The present invention relates to a utility for transforming messages from an external form to the internal representation of a given application and vice versa. The utility can handle messages relative to a variety of external systems and a variety of different formats without recompiling. In one embodiment, the invention is implemented in connection with a classified information processing and distribution system ( ). Multiple input sources ( ) provide information to the system ( ) at various levels of classification and this information is reported over various communication channels ( and ) and in different message formats. The system ( ) sanitizes that data to the classification levels required for dissemination over lower level channels ( and ) to addressees ( ), at least some of whom do not have clearance sufficient to receive all of the input information. A MAG module ( ) transforms input data from the various external formats into the internal data representation of an ADS module. The MAG module ( ) further receives sanitized information from the ADS module in the internal representation and transforms such information into the various external formats of the addressee systems. The module ( ) is a table driven subsystem that can access multiple external format specifications stored in a table structure so as to implement the noted transformations.

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