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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1998
Scott Crouch, Steamboat Springs, CO (US);
Virgil Russon, Greeley, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system of destination modules for transferring data from a source application to a destination application. When sending data, the source application loads a target destination module to perform the transfer. When there is more than one access mechanism available, the target destination module selects one of the access mechanisms, and loads an access mechanism destination module to process the data using the selected access mechanism. Similarly, if more than one data format can be used in the transfer, the access mechanism destination module chooses a data format and loads a data format destination module to process the data using the chosen data format. All three chained destination modules use the same interface, such that a destination module does not need to know if the module it calls to perform an operation uses another destination module to actually accomplish the operation.