Tag management within a decision, support, and reporting environment
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1. A system for developing computer models for the collection and display of data, the system comprising:
- a component builder that provides functionality for generating reusable components for collecting point data and non-point data associated with at least one back-end data source, wherein the point data comprises data collected from at least one addressable informational source and the non-point data comprises context-defining data associated with the point data; and
a view builder that provides functionality for generating reusable views that correspond to specific components generated by the component builder, wherein the views specify how the point data and non-point data collected by a corresponding component is to be displayed.
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Abstract
A system and methods for retrieving and presenting data in a tag-based component environment. The disclosed system provides an efficient mechanism for associating point and non-point data using highly configurable data acquisition strategies. The data acquisition strategies incorporate customized retrieval routines to perform data acquisition at desired intervals so as to reduce unnecessary bandwidth consumption and computational overhead.
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1. A system for developing computer models for the collection and display of data, the system comprising:
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a component builder that provides functionality for generating reusable components for collecting point data and non-point data associated with at least one back-end data source, wherein the point data comprises data collected from at least one addressable informational source and the non-point data comprises context-defining data associated with the point data; and
a view builder that provides functionality for generating reusable views that correspond to specific components generated by the component builder, wherein the views specify how the point data and non-point data collected by a corresponding component is to be displayed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 104)
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21. A method of generating a computer model for the collection and display of aggregated point data and non-point data, the method comprising:
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collecting point data comprising data collected from at least one addressable informational source based upon a specified point data acquisition strategy;
collecting non-point data comprising context-defining data associated with the point data based upon a specified non-point data acquisition strategy;
identifying at least one relationship associating the point data and non-point data; and
displaying the point data and non-point data in a first aggregate view. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method of generating a computer representation used in the collection of aggregated point data and non-point data, the method comprising:
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collecting point data comprising data collected from at least one addressable informational source;
collecting non-point data comprising context-defining data associated with the point data;
identifying at least one relationship associating the point data and non-point data so as to define a base component; and
defining a first extended component comprising an instantiation of the base component wherein at least a portion of the point data and non-point data of the base component is used in the first extended component. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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58. A system of generating a computer representation used in the collection of aggregated point data and non-point data, the system comprising:
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a first data acquisition component the provides functionality for collecting point data comprising data collected from at least one addressable informational source;
a second data acquisition component that provides functionality for collecting non-point data comprising context-defining data associated with the point data; and
a component builder that provides functionality for identifying at least one relationship associating the point data and non-point data so as to define a base component;
the component builder further providing functionality for defining a first extended component comprising an instantiation of the base component wherein at least a portion of the point data and non-point data of the base component is used in the first extended component. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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67. An apparatus comprising a computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon to represent a collection of data from multiple sources and providing:
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at least one instance of at least one base component, each instance of the at least one base component including point data comprising data collected from at least one addressable informational source and non-point data comprising context-defining data associated with the point data;
at least one instance of at least one extended component, each instance of the at least one extended component comprising an instantiation of at least one base component wherein at least a portion of the point data and non-point data of the at least one base component is used in each instance of the at least one extended component; and
a first reusable view that specifies how data collected by instances of the at least one base component and the at least one extended component are to be displayed. - View Dependent Claims (68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
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77. An apparatus comprising a computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon to represent a collection of data from multiple sources and providing:
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at least one instance of at least one first component, each instance of the at least one first component including point data and first non-point data collected from at least one tag-based informational source and second non-point data collected from at least one non-tag-based informational source wherein the first non-point data comprises context-defining information associated with the point data and the second non-point data comprises information associated with a data management application; and
at least one instance of at least one second component, each instance of the at least one second component comprising an instantiation of at least one first component wherein at least a portion of the point data and non-point data of the at least one first component is used in each instance of the at least one second component. - View Dependent Claims (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88)
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89. A system for developing computer models for the collection and display of data, the system comprising:
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a component builder that provides functionality for generating reusable components for collecting tag-based point data and first non-point data associated with at least one back-end data source, wherein the point data comprises data collected from at least one addressable informational source and the first non-point data comprises context-defining data associated with the point data;
the component builder further providing functionality for collecting second non-point data associated with a non-tag-based informational source anda view builder that provides functionality for generating reusable views that correspond to specific components generated by the component builder, whereby a user can generate at least one view that specifies how the point data and non-point data collected by a corresponding component is to be displayed. - View Dependent Claims (90, 91, 92, 93, 94)
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95. A method of generating a computer representation used in the collection of aggregated point data and non-point data, the method comprising:
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collecting point data comprising data collected from at least one addressable informational source;
collecting first non-point data comprising context-defining data associated with the point data;
collecting second non-point data comprising data associated with a non-tag-based informational source;
identifying at least one relationship associating the point data and first non-point data so as to define a base component; and
defining a first extended component comprising an instantiation of the base component wherein at least a portion of the point data and first non-point data of the base component is used in the first extended component in combination with the second non-point data. - View Dependent Claims (96, 97, 98)
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99. A method for managing information associated with at least one tag-based system, the method comprising:
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identifying at least one point data source associated with the at least one tag-based system configured to provide point data, identifying at least one non-point data attribute associated with the point data of the at least one point data source wherein the at least one non-point data attribute is used in the development of a data acquisition rule for acquiring point data from the at least one point data source, and populating a tag-based data structure with the at least one non-point data attribute and acquired point data from the at least one point data source thereby integrating the point data and non-point data in a manner that provides combined accessibility. - View Dependent Claims (100, 101, 102, 103)
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