XML presentation of general-purpose data sources

(54) XML PRESENTATION OF GENERALPURPOSE DATA SOURCES

(75) Inventors: Anthony P. Bata, Superior, CO (US);

Clayton T. Boyd, Boulder, CO (US)

(73) Assignee: Quovadx, Inc., Englewood, CO (US)

( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 342 days.

(21) Appl. No.: 09/952,978

(22) Filed: Sep. 14, 2001

Related U.S. Application Data

(63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 09/798,572, filed on Mar. 2, 2001.

(60) Provisional application No. 60/186,552, filed on Mar. 2, 2000.

(51) Int. CI.7 G06F 7/00; G06F 17/00

(52) U.S. CI 707/101; 707/100; 715/513;

715/514

(58) Field of Search 707/1-3, 10, 100,

707/101, 203; 715/511, 513-514; 717/100,

114, 122

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Primary Examiner—Afford Kindred

(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Thelen Reid & Priest LLP; David B. Ritchie

(57) ABSTRACT

A system and method for presenting one or more generalpurpose application-accessible data sources as an XML representation is discussed. Information that describes the way data is structured or organized in the data source is accessed from the data source. A virtual file system representation comprising a plurality of hierarchical folders is provided to represent the structural information. Optionally, the virtual file system representation may be modified, either manually or according to rules sets. After any desired modification, the XML representation is generated based on the virtual file system representation.

28 Claims, 18 Drawing Sheets

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