Terrence John Egan

US Patent:

20030229846, Dec 11, 2003

Filed:

Sep 13, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/242360

Inventors:

Anil Sethi - Weston FL, US
Arulnambi Kaliappan - Weston FL, US
Kenneth Davis - Lauderhill FL, US
Marc Rubin - Reisterstown MD, US
Terrence Egan - Melbourne FL, US

International Classification:

G06F015/00

US Classification:

715/500000, 715/508000

Abstract:

A method and system for capturing digital data directly from an electronic device's port and processing the data into extensible markup language (XML) form. The integration appliance is configured with desired templates and XML output destination information. A port driver captures the data flowing through the port on its way to the printer. The data is scanned and the data format is determined. The data is parsed into fields and data. The parsed data is scanned to determine the correct template to apply. The correct template is applied to the data to pull out fields and corresponding data. The fields and corresponding data is transformed to XML output. This XML output is sent to a predefined destination.