US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 11 for "Method Of, System For, and Computer Program Product for Providing an E-Business Connector Builder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- United States Patent no. 7,870,286, issued on Jan. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.

Y.).

"Method Of, System For, and Computer Program Product for Providing an E-Business Connector Builder" was invented by Laurence E. England (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Howard J. Glaser (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert D. Moyer (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction-based application is adapted to process transactions over a network such as an internet or intranet. The transaction-based application is adapted by scanning the source code of the transaction-based application to identify a transaction and information related to the transaction; storing the related information in a database; extracting from the database parameter definitions describing communication of information by the transaction; identifying a parameter usage type for each parameter, said parameter usage type selectable from the parameter usage type set comprising input, output, input/output, and unreferenced; displaying the transaction and a subset of the related and extracted information; allowing a user to select the transaction; and using the identified and extracted information to package the user-selected transaction in a form compatible with a connector building tool."

The patent was filed on June 9, 2000, under Application No. 09/591,035.

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