System and method for accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications

Abstract

A system for accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications, the system comprising an application gateway server including a message broker for communicating between the system and a mobile device and a message transformer for communicating with a plurality of backend servers having different data source infrastructures. A method of configuring an application gateway server for accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications, the method comprising the steps of acquiring a desired application bundle, building a communication model in dependence upon the desired application bundle, retrieving a list of data sources from the application bundle, and generating a mapping of data source to a connector type and data structure. A method of accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications, the method comprising the steps of determining a required data structure for a received message, building a representation in dependence upon the required data structure, acquiring a corresponding connector type, and accessing a data source associated with the connector type.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.