(12) United States Patent US006199068B1

(10) Patent N0.: US 6,199,068 B1 Carpenter (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 6, 2001

(54) MAPPING INTERFACE FORA 5,590,179 12/1996 Shincovich et al. .......... .. 379/10606 DISTRIBUTED SERVER T() TRANSLATE 5,596,744 1/1997 Dao et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 707/10

BETWEEN DISSIMILAR FILE FORMATS 5,600,832 2/1997 Eisenberg et al. 707/203 5,602,744 2/1997 Meek et al. 705/412

. - - 5,604,892 2/1997 Nuttall et al. 703/18

(75) Inventor‘ glchardvchnstgllélelrlscarpenter’ 5,619,685 4/1997 Schiavone 703/20 uquay' anna’ ( ) 5,634,053 5/1997 Noble et al. . 704/4

, 5,673,252 * 9/1997 Jhonson et al. .. 370/449 (73) AsslgneeZ ABB Power T&D Company Inc-r 5,994,892 * 11/1999 Turino etal. 324/142

Ralelgh, NC (Us) 6,088,659 * 7/2000 Kelley et al. ........................ .. 702/62

( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this OTHER PUBLICATIONS

gusenct 1; SZSHS 6(2) Cara agilusted under 35 Lee et al., “Design of an automatic meter reading system”, ' ' ' y y ' proceedings of 1996 IEEE, pp. 631—6, Aug. 1996.*

— ea n stem 0 tWare out1ons or “MV90R dOlySy ”UTSSf 51' f (21) Appl. No.: 09/082,758 Utility Customem

(22) Filed: May 21, 1998 * Cited by examiner

Related US. Application Data Primary Examiner—Hosain T. Alam (60) Provisional application No. 60/058,659, ?led on Sep. 11, Assistant Examiner—Sanjiv Shah

1997- (74) Attorney, Agent, or F irm—Woodcock Washburn KurtZ

(51) Int. c1.7 ........................... .. G06F 17/00; G06F 15/63 Macklewlcl & Norms

(52) US. Cl. ..................... .. 707/100; 702/62; 340/87003; (57) ABSTRACT 370/449

(58) Field of Search ................................... .. 707/100, 200, A mapper to translate an input ?19_ from an input 9190191949 707/10 203. 340/870_03 87002 87006 an output domam. The mapper mcludes a canons ut1l1ty

870 07. 762/62’. 370/449. 3’24/142. ’705 /412’ Which builds a canon, the canon being a tree relating all data '35: 703/18’ 20, 704A 2 3, 3%9/106 06? attributes Within a domain of information, and the domain

’ ’ ’ 717/’5 ’709/107 being a collection of data that has a same data format, a maps ’ ’ ’ utility Which creates input and output maps that specify the

. translation from the input domain to the output domain, and (56) References Clted a translator utility to perform the translation of the input ?le

U_S_ PATENT DOCUMENTS to an output ?le. The input map is a data structure that describes a format of the input domain and the output map

4,396,915 * 8/1983 Farnsworth et al. .......... .. 340/870.03 is a data Structure that describes a format of the Output 571877787 2/1993 Skeen et al' ~~~~~~~~ ~~ 709/312 domain. The input map and the output map are derivation 532573369 10/1993 skeell et a1‘ " 709/314 trees, and the mapper utilizes the input map and the output

g/ Emmet """" " 342/1373? map to build a scanner/parser for the input ?le domain. The 5’421’O15 41995 Kigayiagt ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘509/167 mapper traverses the input map to parse data from the input 5’497’319 3/1996 Choi et al' " 7040 ?le into a list. The mapper then maps from the list to the 5’535’120 7/1996 Chong et al' ' 704/3 output domain to generate the output ?le by traversing the 5,553,094 9/1996 Johnson et o1."I.I.I:IIIIIIIN375/130 Output map and reinterpre?ng a Corresponding element in 575577798 9/1996 Skeen et aL ____ __ __ 705/35 the list such that the corresponding element conforms to the

5,560,005 9/1996 Hoover et al. .. 707/10 Output domam 5,561,799 10/1996 Khalidi et al. 707/200 5,583,983 12/1996 Schmitter ............................... .. 717/5 27 Claims, 46 Drawing Sheets

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