SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING DIMENSIONALLY ALTERED MODEL OBJECTS

• US 20110054854A1
• Filed: 08/31/2009
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Williamson, Eric
• Application Number:
  US12/551,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20110054854A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/2016 Rotation, translation, scaling

Abstract

Embodiments relate to a unified management interface and related resources for generating dimensionally altered model objects. A modeling client can host modeling logic and an application programming interface (API) to create, access, manipulate, and import/export modeling objects used in modeling applications, such as engineering, medical, financial, and other modeling platforms. The source data accepted into the modeling client can include consumer or business-level applications, whose spreadsheet, database or other content can be extracted and encapsulated in object-oriented format, such as extensible markup language (XML) format. A modeling module can access the modeling objects, decode their row, column, depth, and/or other dimensional attributes, and scale those objects using scaling rules or other logic. In aspects, the dimensionally altered model object(s) can have their number of rows, columns, and/or other dimensions expanded or reduced to conform to dimensions of a destination data object, such as a spreadsheet, database, or other data structure.

Claims

1. A method of reproducing a model object, comprising:

accessing a set of source data;

accessing a set of model objects from the set of source data, each model object in the set of model objects being based on at least one extracted data element and at least one attribute of the extracted data element,

extracting at least one model object from the set of model objects;

generating a dimensionally altered version of the at least one extracted model object having an expanded or reduced set of dimensions; and

storing the dimensionally altered version of the at least one one extracted model object to a set of destination data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the dimensionally altered version of the at least one extracted model object comprises a model object having at least one of a set of rows and a set of columns scaled up or down to conform to a dimensional size of the set of destination data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the scaling up or down of the at least one extracted model object comprises a scaling up of the at least one extracted model object, and the scaling up comprises a duplication of the at least one extracted model object an integer number of times in at least one dimension.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the scaling up further comprises generating a set of duplicate layers of the at least one extracted model object along a depth dimension.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one extracted model object is retained in the set of source data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of managed model objects comprises at least one model object encoded in extensible markup language (XML) format.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the set of source data and the set of destination data comprises at least one of spreadsheet data, database data, word processing data, or presentation data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one dimensionally altered model object is stored to the set of source data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein dimensionally altered version of the at least one one extracted model object is stored a plurality of times to one or more sets of destination data.

10. A client system, comprising:

an interface to a set of model objects generated from a set of source data, each model object in the set of model objects being based on at least one extracted data element and at least one attribute of the extracted data element; and

a processor, communicating with the set of source data via the interface, the processor being configured to

extract at least one model object from the set of model objects,

generate a dimensionally altered version of the at least one extracted model object having an expanded or reduced set of dimensions, and

store the dimensionally altered version of the at least one one extracted model object to a set of destination data.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the dimensionally altered version of the at least one extracted model object comprises a model object having at least one of a set of rows and a set of columns scaled up or down to conform to a dimensional size of the set of destination data.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the scaling up or down of the at least one extracted model object comprises a scaling up of the at least one extracted model object, and the scaling up comprises a duplication of the at least one extracted model object an integer number of times in at least one dimension.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the scaling up further comprises generating a set of duplicate layers of the at least one extracted model object along a depth dimension.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one extracted model object is retained in the set of source data.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the set of managed model objects comprises at least one model object encoded in extensible markup language (XML) format.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein at least one of the set of source data and the set of destination data comprises at least one of spreadsheet data, database data, word processing data, or presentation data.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one dimensionally altered model object is stored to the set of source data.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein dimensionally altered version of the at least one one extracted model object is stored a plurality of times to one or more sets of destination data.

19. A set of model object data stored in a computer readable medium, comprising:

a set of model objects; and

at least one dimensionally altered model object, the dimensionally altered model object

being based on at least one extracted model object based on at least one data element and at least one attribute of the extracted data element extracted from a set of source data, and

having an expanded or reduced set of dimensions from the at least one extracted model object.

20. The set of model object data of claim 19, wherein the dimensionally altered version of the at least one extracted model object comprises a model object having at least one of a set of rows and a set of columns scaled up or down to conform to a dimensional size of the set of destination data.