Method for allocating data to a database to provide selective access and its application to geophysical data

• US 20050262154A1
• Filed: 05/18/2004
• Published: 11/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RDSP I, L.P.
• Original Assignee: RDSP I, L.P.
• Inventors: Cooper, Richard C.
• Application Number:
  US10/847,957
• Publication Number:
  US 20050262154A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data

Abstract

A method for allocating access to data is disclosed. The method includes storing proprietary data in a first database accessible only by an entity designated by an owner of the proprietary data. The proprietary data are time indexed and are automatically transferred to a second database being accessible by an entity other than the designated entity at a time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status.

Claims

1. A method for allocating access to data, comprising:

storing proprietary data in a first database accessible only by an entity designated by an owner of the proprietary data;

time indexing the proprietary data; and

automatically transferring the proprietary data to a second database being accessible by an entity other than the designated entity at a time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising preprocessing the proprietary data, storing the preprocessed proprietary data in the first database, and automatically transferring the preprocessed proprietary data at the time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising performing a detailed interpretation on the preprocessed data prior to the time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status, and storing the detail interpreted data in a third, proprietary, interpreted database.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the detail interpreted database is accessible by an entity other than an owner of the proprietary data at the time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the time at which the data lose the proprietary status is referenced to an acquisition time of the proprietary data and the time index references the acquisition time.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein a time interval between the acquisition time and the time at which the proprietary status is lost is determined by an agency of government.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the proprietary data comprise seismic survey data.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the proprietary data comprise well log data.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the second database is publicly accessible.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the second database is accessible only by subscribers thereto.

11. A method for allocating access to geophysical well log data, comprising:

storing proprietary geophysical well log data in a first database accessible only by an entity designated by an owner of the proprietary geophysical well log data;

time indexing the proprietary geophysical well log data; and

automatically transferring the proprietary geophysical well log data to a second database being accessible by an entity other than the designated entity at a time at which the proprietary geophysical well log data lose proprietary status.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising preprocessing the proprietary geophysical well log data, storing the preprocessed proprietary data in the first database, and automatically transferring the preprocessed proprietary data at the time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising performing a detailed interpretation on the preprocessed data prior to the time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status, and storing the detail interpreted data in a third, proprietary, interpreted database.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the detail interpreted database is accessible by an entity other than an owner of the proprietary data at the time at which the proprietary data lose proprietary status.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein the time at which the data lose the proprietary status is referenced to an acquisition time of the proprietary data and the time index references the acquisition time.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein a time internal between the acquisition time and the time at which the proprietary status is lost is determined by an agency of government.

17. The method of claim 11 wherein the second database is publicly accessible.

18. The method of claim 11 wherein the second database is accessible only by subscribers thereto.

19. The method of claim 11 wherein data stored in the first data base include proprietary seismic data, and wherein the proprietary seismic data are time indexed and are automatically transferred to the second database at a time at which the proprietary status of the seismic data lose proprietary status.

20. A method for allocating access to seismic data, comprising:

storing proprietary seismic data in a first database accessible only by an entity designated by an owner of the proprietary seismic data;

time indexing the proprietary seismic data; and

automatically transferring the proprietary seismic data to a second database being accessible by an entity other than the designated entity at a time at which the proprietary seismic data lose proprietary status.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the time at which the data lose the proprietary status is referenced to an acquisition time of the proprietary data and the time index references the acquisition time.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein a time interval between the acquisition time and the time at which the proprietary status is lost is determined by an agency of government.

23. The method of claim 20 wherein the second database is publicly accessible.

24. The method of claim 20 wherein the second database is accessible only by subscribers thereto.