System and method for integrating and characterizing data from multiple electronic systems
First Claim
1. A method of integrating and characterizing data from a plurality of electronic systems, said method comprising the following steps:
- coupling each of a plurality of electronic systems to a central control system;
receiving and interfacing at least one datastream from each of the plurality of electronic systems to yield a collection of assembled data;
sorting and organizing the assembled data from the plurality of electronic systems to formulate a collection of discrete events, wherein the discrete events are independent from the assembled data and are relayed to a dedicated storage medium;
comparing the events formulated in said step of sorting and organizing to one or more predetermined event definitions;
pro-actively identifying as exceptions selected events from said comparing step;
correlating supplemental time-synchronized data to selected events of the identified exceptions; and
providing notification to a user of the identified exceptions.
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Abstract
A computer-based platform is provided for integrating data from multiple systems including (but not limited to) point of sale (POS) terminals, video systems, electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems, automatic teller machines (ATMs), gas pumps, alarm systems, radio frequency identification (RFID) detection systems, etc. The subject computer-based platform is configured to gather and correlate data (e.g., transactional data and/or video data), package such data into multiple discrete system “events”, and to provide various features for proactively identifying selected events as “exceptions”. Additional aspects of the computer-based platform may be utilized to provide signaled identification to a user of identified exceptions and other integrated system data. Still further aspects of the platform can be used to group these new events to create larger groupings of multiple transactions, events, data, exceptions, and/or research. This larger grouping can be derived from similar or diverse input systems and can be treated as a new entity that can be acted on independently.
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25 Claims
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1. A method of integrating and characterizing data from a plurality of electronic systems, said method comprising the following steps:
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coupling each of a plurality of electronic systems to a central control system;
receiving and interfacing at least one datastream from each of the plurality of electronic systems to yield a collection of assembled data;
sorting and organizing the assembled data from the plurality of electronic systems to formulate a collection of discrete events, wherein the discrete events are independent from the assembled data and are relayed to a dedicated storage medium;
comparing the events formulated in said step of sorting and organizing to one or more predetermined event definitions;
pro-actively identifying as exceptions selected events from said comparing step;
correlating supplemental time-synchronized data to selected events of the identified exceptions; and
providing notification to a user of the identified exceptions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer-based platform for integrating a plurality of electronic systems and correlating information outputs therefrom, said computer-based platform comprising:
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at least one interface module for establishing a connection between the computer-based platform and selected of the plurality of electronic systems and for obtaining data from said selected of the plurality of electronic systems;
a user interface for creating and maintaining user-defined criteria for characterizing the data from said plurality of electronic systems and for defining one or more event types associated with the data received from said plurality of electronic systems;
a data-processing procedure for transforming the data from said plurality of electronic systems into a common format, parsing the commonly formatted data collected from said plurality of electronic systems, and posting independent data events identified within the commonly formatted data to an associated storage medium;
an exception identification procedure for determining when events identified via the data-processing procedure meet or exceed a trigger definition, thus corresponding to an exception; and
a notification engine for proactively relaying notification information regarding selected events and exceptions to a user. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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