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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2000
Uzair Ahmed Niazi, Isleworth, GB;
Andrew Richard Rundell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of processing data files which are generated in accordance with different protocols. Each protocol defines a number of mark-up tags and each data file includes a number of respective mark-up tags, each mark-up tag having respective data associated therewith. The method including storing the data contained in a data file by receiving the data file, determining the protocol definition, and using the protocol definition to determine storage location(s) or processing action(s) for each of the mark-up tags of the data file. Once this has been done the protocol definition is used to determine contextual information for each of the mark-up tags of the data file. The marked up data contained within the data file is then extracted and, stored or processed in accordance with the determined contextual information and at least one of the storage location(s) or the processing action(s).