US Patent 7984373 EDI instance based transaction set definition

Patent 7984373 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

79843730

Patent Inventor Names

Surendra Machiraju0

Suraj Gaurav0

Date of Patent

July 19, 2011

Patent Application Number

113624250

Date Filed

February 24, 2006

Patent Primary Examiner

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Laurie Ries

Patent abstract

Creating an electronic data interchange (EDI) transaction from a description of the EDI schema. The description defines the EDI schema in a non-EDI structure. The description of the EDI schema is received. A plurality of data units included in the received description of the EDI schema is identified. The plurality of data units describes the content of the EDI schema. The identified plurality of data units is analyzed to determine the content of the EDI schema. The document definition is generated for the EDI schema as a function of the analyzed plurality of data units. The document definition is used to create an EDI transaction according to the EDI schema.