Method and apparatus for context based data analytics

• US 10,049,135 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2014
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jr., Ronald Gordon Whitley
• Original Assignee: Jr., Ronald Gordon Whitley
• Inventors: Whitley, Jr., Ronald Gordon
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Wilson
• Application Number:
  US14/551,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20150149455A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,359 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24553 of query operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2465 Query processing support for facilitating data mining operations in structured databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data

Abstract

Context-based data analytics based on visual intuition, and generation of information contexts for conducting research, analysis, and/or decision making. A plurality of information objects (IOs) are generated, each IO indicative of a plurality of data points corresponding to an object among objects for which information in a first domain is obtained, by containing information values (IVs) based upon context data, an IV generated based upon a product of each target data point, a relevance value (RV) of the target data point, a confidence value (CV) of the target data point, and a bias value. Visually displaying the IVs in a three dimensional space based on a distance formula to represent a relative relationship indicative of relevance as gravitational forces between the IOs using a set of concentric spheres corresponding to the IOs.

Claims

1. A computer system, the computer system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one hardware storage device communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions which when executed by the at least one processor control the at least one processor to,

execute a process to generate a plurality of information objects (IOs), each IO indicative of a plurality of data points corresponding to an object among objects for which information in a first domain is obtained, a first IO among the plurality of IOs for a first object among the objects generated by,

obtaining at least three first values of at least three first target data points by querying data, each first value indicative of a valuation metric for each first target data point,

obtaining a plurality of second values indicative of first context data corresponding to the at least three first target data points, the plurality of second values including,

a value indicative of a user context profile defining a use pattern of the user in a computer system performing a determination about the first object,

a relevance value (RV) of each first target data point,

a confidence value (CV) for each RV of each first target data point, and for each first target data point,

a first bias value for each first target data point, and

a second bias value,

generating at least three first information components (ICs), each first IC including each first target data point and the corresponding first context data, and

generating the first IO containing at least three first information values (IVs) corresponding to the at least three first IC, each IV generated based upon a product of each first target data point, RV, CV, and the first and second bias values;

repeating execution of the process to generate a plurality of IOs to generate a second IO containing at least three second IVs for at least three second ICs for at least three second target data points for a second object for which information in the first domain is obtained; and

perform at least one evaluation determination including,

plotting the at least three first and second IVs of the first and second IOs in a three dimensional space based on a distance formula to represent a relative relationship indicative of relevance as gravitational forces between the first and second IOs, to control displaying a set of concentric spheres corresponding to the first and second IOs,

each set of concentric spheres indicative of a gravity value (GV) based upon IVs contained in an IO to visually depict an outward or inward gravitational force indicative of relevance of the corresponding IV to another IV.

2. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein GV further indicates a relative relationship among the at least three IVs contained in an IO.

3. The computer system according to claim 2, wherein the at least three first and second IVs of the first and second IOs are plotted for a time period in the three dimensional space to visually depict in the time period an outward or inward gravitational force indicative of relevance of the corresponding IV to another IV.

4. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the GV is generated based upon a sum of IVs of the ICs contained in an IO.

5. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein a concentric sphere in the set of concentric spheres is represented in form an amount of IV and a volume of information for an IO.