System and method for communicating data

Abstract

A system and method is provided for communicating data between a source application process and one or more destination application processes. This system and method performs conversion and routing functions which require only a single conversion of all inbound and outbound transmissions regardless of the variety of destinations/sources. The functions also enable changes, additions, and deletions of source/destination application processes to be made without modification of the source/destination application processes and without taking a process off-line. These conversion and routing functions are performed by receiving data in a source format, converting the data to a standard format, identifying one or more destinations in a database using a transaction type, transmitting a copy of the data to each destination, and converting the data to a destination format.

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       33 . A method of communicating data of a known data type from a first process located on a first processing system to a second process located on a second processing system, the method comprising: 
 defining a relationship between a second queue that is associated with the second process and at least one of the known data type and a first queue that is associated with the first process;    receiving the data in a first format from the first process;    converting the data from the first format to a standard format;    determining the second queue based upon the defined relationship after receiving the data in the first format from the first process;    providing the data in the standard format to the second queue;    receiving the data provided in the standard format at the second queue; and    providing the data in the second format to the second process.