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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2000
Thomas C. Walsh, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael J. Young, Boxborough, MA (US);
Joseph J. DiCelie, Boylston, MA (US);
David W. H. Wong, Boxborough, MA (US);
Alan W. Esenther, Ashland, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An enterprise integration system is coupled to a number of legacy data sources. The data sources each use different data formats and different access methods. The integration system includes a back-end interface configured to convert input data source information to input XML documents and to convert output XML document to output data source information. A front-end interface converts the output XML documents to output HTML forms and the input HTML forms to the XML documents. A middle tier includes a rules engine and a rules database. Design tools are used to define the conversion and the XML documents. A network couples the back-end interface, the front-end interface, the middle tier, the design tools, and the data sources. Mobile agents are configured to communicate the XML documents over the network and to process the XML documents according to the rules.