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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Cynthia F. Beckett, Livermore, CA (US);
Deepak Alur, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mats Jansson, Redwood City, CA (US);
Virginia C. Hyde, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., , DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for performing secure data transfer operations over a global computer network. This is accomplished by extracting data from a database stored on a first computer system connected to the global computer network, translating the data extracted from the database into a standard format, encrypting the formatted data, and transmitting the encrypted data to a second computer system connected to the global computer network. The second computer system, in turn, receives the encrypted data, decrypts it, translates into a format compatible with the second computer system and merges the reformatted data into a database stored on the second computer system. Unlike prior art techniques, in which data transfers are performed in batch off-line, the method and apparatus of the present invention allow for secure data transfer operations to be performed on-line in real-time. In addition, since a global computer network is utilized, there is no need to maintain a dedicated communication line between the first and the second computer system, but rather a single network connection can be used by the first and the second computer system to communicate with any number of computer systems connected to the global computer network.