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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2008
Filed:
May. 29, 2003
Glen Hattrup, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jeou-rong Lay, San Jose, CA (US);
David Darden Chambliss, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Howard Newton Martin, Tucson, AZ (US);
Glen Hattrup, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jeou-Rong Lay, San Jose, CA (US);
David Darden Chambliss, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Howard Newton Martin, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method for managing and formatting data in an autonomous data transfer operation are provided. An initialization module is configured to prepare metadata corresponding to a data source. A loader loads autonomous operation instructions corresponding to the data source into a first location and loads autonomous operation instructions corresponding to the metadata into a second location. An assembler selectively assembles, according to a set of formatting rules, autonomous operation instructions from the first location and the second location into a set of autonomous operation instructions. By assembling an ordered set of autonomous operation instructions, a third party autonomous operation may effectively insert metadata into and remove metadata from a contiguous data stream of a data source without altering the data.