External interface for requesting data from remote systems in a generic fashion

US6961708B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION · US

Inventor

• Steven E. Bierenbaum · Orlando, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 1, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 5, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system, method and carrier medium for communicating between a Financial Service Organization (FSO) computer system and a computer system external to the FSO in a generic fashion. For each direction of a message (i.e., outbound from the FSO computer system or inbound to the FSO computer system), two templates are constructed and subsequently stored in a database. The first type of template is the message template; the second type of template is the message layout template. The outbound message template represents outbound messages; the inbound message template represents inbound messages. The outbound message layout template represents outbound message layouts; the inbound message layout template represents inbound message layouts. An outbound message represents a request for FSO data from an external computer system to be used in a FSO computer system for processing a FSO transaction between a FSO and a FSO customer. An inbound message represents a receipt of FSO data from an external computer system to be used in the FSO computer system for processing a FSO transaction between a FSO and a FSO customer. The corresponding message layouts represent graphical presentations of the ou…