US 2004/0210631 A1 · Method and apparatus for accessing legacy data in a standardized environment

Abstract

In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for accessing data using Web Services. A prototype object is defined which describes data. The prototype object is defined in a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document using a class. In one embodiment of the present invention, the class is implemented with a struct data type. In an alternate embodiment of the present invention, the class is implemented with a class data type. The WSDL document is used to operate a Web Service, which accesses the data and generates objects compliant with the class.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of accessing information comprising the steps of:

identifying a service;
and
communicating with the service using a service description, the service description including a class.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/417,935Filed 17 Apr 2003

Published

21 Oct 2004

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 69/329
Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions: in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
G06F 16/972
Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking: access to data in other repository…
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 67/51
Network services: discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Method and apparatus for accessing legacy data in a standardized environment

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Method and apparatus for accessing legacy data in a standardized environment

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Abstract

Claims20