Method and System for Extracting Information from Electronic Data Sources

• US 20120296860A1
• Filed: 08/02/2012
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ryan LLC
• Original Assignee: Ryan
• Inventors: Kirkpatrick, Timothy Michael, Meredith, Kyle Day
• Granted Patent: US 8,972,335 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/601
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

A system and method of extracting information from electronic data sources that includes generating a list of file names containing the information to be extracted. Each file name in the list is read into memory, the file that corresponds to the file name is read into memory, and the information is extracted from the file by executing a series of programming instructions. The information is saved to an extracted file, and one or more file names in the list is identified to correspond to an extracted file.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An automatic data extraction system for extracting data from a data warehouse, the system comprising:

a front end launcher providing a graphical user interface allowing a user to interact with the system;

an extraction module operable to launch a data extraction utility in response to a command from the front end launcher, the data extraction utility operable to retrieve data meeting a set of criteria from the data warehouse;

a statistics module operable to monitor and maintain statistical values related to the data extracted from the data warehouse; and

a navigation module operable to manipulate a user interface to retrieve data from the data warehouse;

wherein the front end launcher, the extraction module, the statistics module, and the navigation module are stored in the form of computer executable instructions on one or more computer readable media.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising a format converter to convert the data in the data warehouse into a common format.

18. The system of claim 16 further comprising a settings module accessed through the front end launcher, the settings module including a mouse configuration module and an external windows module.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the mouse configuration module stores mouse cursor movement positions, the mouse cursor movement positions usable in extraction procedures.

20. The system of claim 18 wherein the external windows module is operable to store instructions for the resizing, relocation, or anchoring of external windows.