Analyzing a query and provisioning data to analytics

• US 10,255,364 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2014
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Byrne, Brian P., Milman, Ivan M., Oberhofer, Martin, Pandit, Sushain
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, III, Albert M
• Application Number:
  US14/551,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20150286693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,597 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3329 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3334 Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A user interface is generated that displays a set of selectable terms from a glossary of business terms and is configured to generate a business metadata query that identifies a forum with member profiles. A data movement executable is generated that identifies the forum and an analytical processing environment. The data movement executable is deployed and data is moved from the forum into the analytical processing environment. Analytics are performed on the data from the forum. Metadata is identified from the analytics. The glossary of business terms is updated using the metadata from the analytics.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for analyzing a query and provisioning data to analytics, the method comprising:

generating a user interface that displays a set of selectable terms from a glossary of business terms;

generating, in response to a selection of a subset of the set of selectable terms, a business metadata query that identifies at least one forum with a plurality of member profiles;

generating, by a generator, at least one data movement executable from the business metadata query that identifies the at least one forum and an analytical processing environment;

moving, by a computing platform, data from the at least one forum into the analytical processing environment by deploying the at least one data movement executable;

performing, by the computing platform, using the analytical processing environment, analytical operations on the data from the at least one forum, by performing association correlation mining on the data from the at least one forum;

identifying, by a business extender, metadata from a result of the analytical operations; and

updating, by the business extender the glossary of business terms using the identified metadata.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the at least one data movement executable comprises:

analyzing technical metadata associated with business metadata to identify a scope of the business metadata query; and

analyzing the business metadata query to identify at least one data source, the analytical operations, and the analytical processing environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein deploying the at least one data movement executable by the computing platform comprises:

reading data from at least one data source;

receiving data records from the at least one data source based on the data read; and

sending the data records to the analytical environment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of selectable terms include a customer segment, a product segment, a social media source, and an analytical operation.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the computing platform results in response to the performance of the analytical operations on the data; and

sending, by the computing platform, the results to an analytical user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the glossary of business terms includes adding, by the business extender new business terms to the glossary of business terms.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the glossary of business terms includes further defining, by the business extender, a set of business terms in the glossary of business terms.