US Patent No: 6,542,912

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Tool for building documents for commerce in trading partner networks and interface definitions based on the documents

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Abstract

Machine readable documents connect businesses with customers, suppliers and trading partners. The self defining electronic documents, such as XML based documents, can be easily understood amongst the partners. Definitions of these electronics business documents, called business interface definitions, are posted on the Internet, or otherwise communicated to members of the network. The business interface definitions tell potential trading partiers the services the company offers and the documents to use when communicating with such services. Thus, a typical business interface definition allows a customer to place an order by submitting a purchase order or a supplier checks availability by downloading an inventory status report. Also, composition of the input and output documents, coupled with interpretation information in a common business library, programs the transaction in a way which closely parallels the way in which paper based businesses operate.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
RED HAT, INC.RALEIGH, NC511

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Allen, Terry Sebastopol, CA 6 323
Fuchs, Matthew Daniel Los Gatos, CA 7 580
Glushko, Robert John San Francisco, CA 7 580
Maloney, Murray Pickering, CA 6 323
Meltzer, Bart Alan Aptos, CA 8 588

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