Method and system for accessing data in an enterprise information system

• US 20090187663A1
• Filed: 01/18/2008
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GE Digital Holdings LLC (GE Vernova, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Salt, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 8,291,086 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals

Abstract

Systems and methods for requesting and receiving data from an enterprise information system are described. In accordance with one embodiment, the connector system includes an application server managed connection factory for receiving a data request, and a load balancer for assigning an enterprise information system server connection to the request.

Claims

1. A connector system for requesting information from an enterprise information system, said connector system comprising:

an application server managed connection factory for receiving a data request, and

a load balancer for assigning an enterprise information system server connection to the request.

2. A connector system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising a geographic information system connection factory for communicating the data request to the application server managed connection factory.

3. A connector system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising a request header which provides said managed connection factory with request values, and a resource adapter which corresponds the request with a particular enterprise information system.

4. A connector system in accordance with claim 1 where said load balancer assigns the enterprise information system server connection using at least one of a default and a Round-Robin algorithm.

5. A connector system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising an Agent Monitor for communicating with the enterprise information system to send/receive administrative commands/data.

6. A method for communicating a data request to an enterprise information system from a service, said method comprising:

receiving the request at an application server managed connection factory, and

assigning an enterprise information system server connection to the request based on a load balance.

7. A method in accordance with claim 6 wherein a geographic information system connection factory communicates the data request to the application server managed connection factory.

8. A method in accordance with claim 6 further comprising obtaining header values associated with the request header and providing the header values to the managed connection factory, and relating the request with a particular enterprise information system based on the header values.

9. A method in accordance with claim 6 where the load balancer is based on at least one of a default and a Round-Robin algorithm.

10. A method in accordance with claim 6 further comprising communicating with the enterprise information system to send/receive administrative commands/data via an Agent Monitor.

11. A connector system for requesting information from an enterprise information system, said connector system comprising:

a geographic information system connection factory for receiving a data request from a service,

an application server managed connection factory for receiving the data request from the geographic information system factory,

a resource adapter which corresponds the request with a particular enterprise information system, and

a load balancer for assigning an enterprise information system server connection to the request.

12. A connector system in accordance with claim 11 further comprising a request header which provides said managed connection factory with request values.

13. A connector system in accordance with claim 11 where said load balancer assigns the enterprise information system server connection using at least one of a default and a Round-Robin algorithm.

14. A connector system in accordance with claim 11 further comprising an Agent Monitor for communicating with the enterprise information system to send/receive administrative commands/data.