Systems, devices, and methods for exchanging and processing data measures and objects

• US 10,057,108 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2016
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Decisyon, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Decisyon, Inc.
• Inventors: Vivalda, Antonio, Del Franco, Fabrizio, Costantini, Simone, Pratico, Alessandro, Petrucci, Franco
• Primary Examiner(s): Algibhah, Hamza N
• Application Number:
  US15/195,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20170033972A1
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference

Abstract

This disclosure in part describes systems, devices, and methods for exchanging and processing data measures and objects to enable collaboration between systems through network interfaces. In one embodiment, multiple systems communicate with one another via a computer network using communication objects, which can reduce disconnection inefficiencies in network communication between the multiple systems. The generation, transmission, and processing of such communication objects enables an ecosystem of networked systems to dynamically be created, supported, and evolve so as to facilitate improved collaboration between organizations utilizing the networked systems. The communication objects additionally enable the communication of data between systems with a limited number of user inputs.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating collaboration between users of a plurality of user terminals around a data measure mapped to a multi-dimensional data model, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a computer system comprising hardware circuitry, a first communication object via a computer network from a first server, the first communication object comprising (i) first data measures mapped to a first multi-dimensional data model configured for access by online analytical processing (OLAP) applications, (ii) parameters indicative of coordinates of a plurality of data dimensions of the first multi-dimensional data model that uniquely identify the first data measures within the first multi-dimensional data model, and (iii) first instructions for automatically exchanging with other objects data including the first data measures;

retrieving, by the computer system, a second data measure from an electronic data storage in communication with the computer system according to coordinates of a plurality of data dimensions of a second multi-dimensional data model that uniquely identify the second data measure within the second multi-dimensional data model, the second multi-dimensional data model configured for access by the OLAP applications;

determining, by the computer system, an output data measure using the second data measure and at least one of the first data measures;

generating, by the computer system, a second communication object comprising (i) the output data measure, (ii) a parameter indicative of coordinates of a plurality of data dimensions of a second multi-dimensional data model that uniquely identify the output data measure within the second multi-dimensional data model, and (iii) second instructions for automatically exchanging with the other objects data including the output data measure; and

transmitting, by the computer system, the second communication object via the computer network to a second server, wherein receipt of the second communication object by the second server causes the second server to determine another output data measure using the output data measure and a third data measure retrieved from another electronic data storage in communication with the second server, the third data measure retrieved according to coordinates of a plurality of data dimensions of a third multi-dimensional data model that uniquely identify the third data measure within the third multi-dimensional data model, the third multi-dimensional data model configured for access by the OLAP applications.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising integrating, by the computer system, the first communication object with another object used by the computer system to process the second data measure.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein said integrating comprises automatically correlating, by the computer system, data mapping of the first data measures with data mappings of the another object.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein said automatically correlating is performed by the computer system based at least on the first instructions.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein said integrating is performed by the computer system so that a value of at least one of the first data measures automatically initiates a process by the another object.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising requesting, by the computer system, updated values for the first data measures from the first server.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the computer system, updated values for at least some of the first data measures as a data push from the first server.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the computer system, an updated value for the output data measure to the second server in response to a request from the second server for the updated value for the output data measure.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the computer system, an updated value for the output data measure as a data push to the second server.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting comprises simultaneously or consecutively transmitting, by the computer system, the second communication object to a plurality of servers including the second server, wherein receipt of the second communication object by each of the plurality of servers causes each server to determine another output data measure using the output data measure.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, by the computer system, a user interface comprising a value of the output data measure; and

outputting, by the computer system, the user interface to a display of a terminal for presentation on a screen of the display to a viewer.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the user interface comprises an indication that the computer system received the output data measure from the first server, the indication being positioned in juxtaposition to the value of the output data measure.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising generating and outputting a social space for the viewer, the user interface being part of the social space.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second multi-dimensional data model comprises at least three dimensions, and the output data measure and the second data measure are stored in the electronic data storage in a relational database structure.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first communication object and the second communication object each comprises a data structure and processing routines.