System, method, software architecture, and business model for an intelligent object based information technology platform

• US 20050289166A1
• Filed: 08/31/2005
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Melissa Data Corp
• Original Assignee: IO Informatics
• Inventors: Gombocz, Erich A., Stanley, Robert A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,702,639 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

In one aspect, the invention provides an architecture and query and processing methodology, advantageously implemented in software, for an information technology platform using Intelligent Molecular Objects or objects of a more general character. In another aspect, it provides intelligent molecular object data or other data for heterogeneous data environments with high data density and dynamic application needs. In yet another, it provides an Object State Engine for intelligent molecular object data technology. In still another, it provides an Object Translation Engine for intelligent molecular object data in heterogeneous data environments with dynamic application needs. In yet another aspect, it provides a handling device including an Intelligent Object Handler for intelligent molecular object data in heterogeneous data environments with high data density and dynamic application needs. In even still another aspect, the invention provides a data pool architecture and an Intelligent Object Pool for intelligent molecular object data in heterogeneous data environments with high data density and dynamic application needs. An architecture for an information technology platform using Intelligent Molecular Object software is provided, which addresses all steps of data processing from data acquisition through diverse sources and instrumentation to final output of diverse data analysis

Claims

1-29. -29. (canceled)

30. A computer-implemented informatics system for managing multidimensional data from a plurality of different data sources over electronic communication links, comprising:

data object means executable on a computer-implemented informatics server for defining data objects representing individual data items;

direct content accessing means executable on a computer-implemented informatics server for accessing data content of data items in a raw data form;

communication means for communicating with the data objects;

object handler means executable on a computer-implemented informatics server for generating, managing, processing and querying data objects;

data pane means for defining descriptors of the data objects;

translation means for converting data associated with different data items into a common format;

master query search means for searching data objects as subsets of data pointed to by at least one subset vector and having data attributes; and

data link description means for defining data relationships and data subset relationships and for triggering activity based on information pertaining to detected data content and data relationships.

31. The system of claim 30, further comprising inter-object direct information exchange means for exchanging information between data objects for related data items.

32. The system of claim 30, further comprising boundary protocols for virtual databases.

33. The system of claim 30, further comprising a knowledge extraction engine to perform statistical analysis of queries.

34. The system of claim 30, further comprising a distributed learning engine to validate and rank search results.

35. The system of claim 30, further comprising a neural network for optimizing a search of interconnected data objects and for definition and weighting of linkages for optimizing analysis of interconnected data objects.

36. A computer-implemented informatics system for managing a plurality of data sets comprising multidimensional data from a plurality of data sources, comprising:

data object definer for defining a plurality of data objects, wherein each defined data object represents one or more atomic data item of a data set, the data object definer being executable by the computer-implemented informatics server;

direct content access logic, executable on the computer-implemented informatics server, wherein the direct content access logic encodes functionality for accessing data content of atomic data items in a raw data form, the raw data form being a form in which the atomic data items were provided by one or more of the plurality of data sources;

an object handler, executable on the computer-implemented informatics server, wherein the object handler includes logic at least one of processing the data objects and querying the data objects;

data pane logic for defining descriptors of the data objects;

a data translator for converting data associated with data items from their raw data form into a common format used by the computer-implemented informatics server;

master query search logic for searching data objects as subsets of data pointed to by at least one subset vector and having data attributes; and

data link descriptor for defining data relationships and data subset relationships and for triggering activity based on information pertaining to detected data content and data relationships.