Structured metadata for dynamic data encapsulation

• US 10,579,722 B1
• Filed: 07/25/2018
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Woodward, Suzzanne L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie A
• Application Number:
  US16/045,721
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0802 Addressing of a memory level in which the access to the desired data or data block requires associative addressing means, e.g. caches
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/1041 Resource optimization
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174

Abstract

A computer system for providing access service request (ASR) forms. The system comprises a data store comprising structured metadata, where the structured metadata represents a plurality of ASR forms, a processor, a non-transitory memory, and an application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the application traverses the structured metadata, builds a plurality of ASR form group containers based on the traversing, where each ASR form group container is associated with one access service request type and the ASR form group container comprises definitions of forms, sections, and attributes and methods for accessing the forms, sections, and attributes by a front-end workstation for presenting a ASR, and caches each of the ASR form group containers by the application in a memory of the computer system, wherein the ASR form group containers are built once during an execution cycle by the application on initiation of the application.

Claims

1. A method of presenting access service request (ASR) forms, comprising:

traversing structured metadata read from a data store by an access service ordering guidelines (ASOG) application executing on a computer system, where the structured metadata represents a plurality of ASR forms;

building a plurality of ASR form group containers by the ASOG application based on the traversing, where each ASR form group container is associated with one access service request type and the ASR form group container comprises definitions of forms, sections, and attributes and methods for accessing the forms, sections, and attributes by a front-end workstation for presenting an ASR; and

caching each of the ASR form group containers by the ASOG application in a memory of the computer system,

wherein the ASR form group containers are built once during an execution cycle by the ASOG application on initiation of the ASOG application.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

requesting an ASR form group container from the ASOG application by a front-end application executing on a different computer system;

presenting an ASR form on a display of the different computer system by the front-end application;

capturing by the front-end application data that has been input to the ASR form;

formatting the input data; and

transmitting the formatted data to a third party, whereby an access service request is completed.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the ASR forms represented by the structured metadata comprise a transport service request form, a cancel service request form, and an end user special access order request form.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

editing a spreadsheet that represents ASOG ASR form definitions; and

executing a script on a computer system to generate the structured metadata and write it to the data store, wherein the script processes the spreadsheet as input.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

changing the structured metadata in the data store;

terminating the ASOG application;

restarting the ASOG application;

traversing the changed structured metadata read from a data store by the ASOG application after restarting;

building a plurality of new ASR form group containers by the ASOG application based on the traversing the changed structured metadata; and

caching each of the new ASR form group containers by the ASOG application in the memory of the computer system,

whereby the ASR form group containers are revised in response to changed ASOG ASR form definitions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the structured metadata is contained in a plurality of tables.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the tables comprise an ASR type table, a form table, a form content table, a form section table, a section content table, and an attribute table.

8. A computer system for providing access service request (ASR) forms, comprising:

a data store comprising structured metadata, where the structured metadata represents a plurality of ASR forms;

a processor;

a non-transitory memory; and

an access service ordering guidelines (ASOG) application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor,

traverses the structured metadata read from the data store,

builds a plurality of ASR form group containers by the ASOG application based on the traversing, where each ASR form group container is associated with one access service request type and the ASR form group container comprises definitions of forms, sections, and attributes and methods for accessing the forms, sections, and attributes by a front-end workstation for presenting a ASR, and

caches each of the ASR form group containers by the ASOG application in a memory of the computer system, wherein the ASR form group containers are built once during an execution cycle by the ASOG application on initiation of the ASOG application.

9. The computer system of claim 8, further comprising a transitory memory, wherein the ASOG application caches each of the ASR form group containers in the transitory memory.

10. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the ASOG application caches each of the ASR form group containers in the non-transitory memory.

11. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the ASR forms represented by the structured metadata comprise transport service request form, a cancel service request form, and an end user special access order request form.

12. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the structured metadata is contained in a plurality of tables.

13. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the tables comprise an ASR type table, a form table, a form content table, a form section table, a section content table, and an attribute table.

14. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the attribute table comprises rows having an attribute minimum length column, an attribute maximum length column, and an attribute mask value column.

15. A method of presenting standardized forms, comprising:

traversing structured metadata read from a data store by a form application executing on a computer system, where the structured metadata represents a plurality of standardized forms;

building a plurality of form group containers by the form application based on the traversing, where each form group container is associated with one user interface presentation and the form group container comprises definitions of forms, sections, and attributes and methods for accessing the forms, sections, and attributes by a front-end workstation for presenting the user interface; and

caching each of the form group containers by the form application in a memory of the computer system.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the application caches each of the form group containers in a transitory portion of the memory.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the structured metadata is contained in a plurality of tables.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the structured metadata represents a plurality of ASR forms.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the ASR forms represented by the structured metadata comprise a transport service request form, a cancel service request form, and an end user special access order request form.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

requesting a form group container from the application by a front-end application executing on a different computer system;

presenting a form on a display of the different computer system by the front-end application;

capturing by the front-end application data that has been input to the form;

formatting the input data; and

transmitting the formatted data to a third party, whereby a request is completed.