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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 one or more sequenced data base management commands. These 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. The response is transferred to the user over the world wide web. A number of reports are automatically generated by said data base management system in response to a signal, such as a change of date or a particular time. The automatically generated reports may be spooled by the repository for future electronic delivery to the appropriate user terminals.

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