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Abstract

An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access an existing proprietary data base management system having a dialog-based request format. The user request is received by a web server from the world wide web and converted into an object consisting of one or more sequenced data base management commands. An expiration date corresponding to the object is checked. If the object is obsolete, a diagnostic message is sent to the requester. Otherwise the data base management commands are sequentially presented to the data base management system and the intermediate products stored. After all of the sequenced data base management commands have been executed, the web server combines the intermediate products to form a complete response to the initial user request. An MIME type is accessed from a storage facility and appended to the complete response. The response containing the MIME type is transferred to the user over the world wide web.

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