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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2001
Yongcheng LI, Raleigh, NC (US);
Sajan Sankaran, Raleigh, NC (US);
Spencer H. Shepard, Iv, Durham, NC (US);
Yih-shin Tan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Yongcheng Li, Raleigh, NC (US);
Sajan Sankaran, Raleigh, NC (US);
Spencer H. Shepard, IV, Durham, NC (US);
Yih-Shin Tan, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically transforming data or business messages to enable communication between parties in a distributed computing environment (e.g. between business partners who exchange data over a public network, and who do not necessarily use the same data formats), where this data transformation preferably occurs at the edge of the computing network. A set of transformation services is described, and include template registration, transformation, forward, and receive services. Services from this set may optionally be combined to create composite transformation services. A template defines how to transform one data format into another. Selection criteria may be provided to enable dynamically selecting a template at run-time. Using these services, one business partner simply hands its data off into the network to a network-accessible transformation service, where the data is automatically transformed into a format usable by its business partner and forwarded to that business partner.