US Patent:
20020083099, Jun 27, 2002
Inventors:
Daniel Knauss - Troy MI, US
Timothy Shear - Novi MI, US
Prakash Reddy - Rochester Hills MI, US
Srinivas Gadudasu - St. Clair Shores MI, US
Srinivasan Sairamachandran - Troy MI, US
Assignee:
GE Information Services, Inc.
International Classification:
G06F015/00
G06F017/24
G06F017/60
G06F017/00
G06F017/21
US Classification:
707/513000, 705/001000, 705/026000
Abstract:
A computer implemented method, apparatus and software for automatically transforming data between Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) formats. For generating EDI documents or messages, a source data model with EDI related data is received. Data is transferred from metadata elements of the source data model to variables of a virtual document, based on a mapping that has been previously made. Data assigned to the variables of the virtual document are then transferred to metadata elements of a target data model. An EDI document or message corresponding to the target data model is automatically created as a result, which includes data from the source document or message.