SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION SERVICES

• US 20130080535A1
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Rolia, Jerome, Simske, Steven J., Jacobsen, Mark, Moloney, Gary
• Application Number:
  US13/701,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20130080535A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/17306 Intercommunication techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0875 Itemisation or classification of parts, supplies or services, e.g. bill of materials
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

The present disclosure includes a system and method for collaborative information services. A computing system includes a plurality of collaborative information participants [238] interconnected via a communication network [239], each participant having zero or more data sources [240], and a computing platform [224] programmed with query services [226]. Each query service defines one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . 227-N] operable on authorized portions of participant data sources [240]. The computing platform [224] is further programmed with indications from individual ones of the plurality of collaborative information participants [238] authorizing some portion of their data source [240] to be available to the one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] defined by at least one query service [226].

Claims

1. A computing system, comprising:

a plurality of collaborative information participants [238] interconnected via a communication network [239], each participant having zero or more data sources [240];

a computing platform [224] programmed with query services [226], each query service defining one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] operable on authorized portions of participant data sources [240];

wherein the computing platform [224] is further programmed with indications from individual ones of the plurality of collaborative information participants [238] authorizing some portion of their data sources [240] to be available to the one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] used by at least one query service [226].

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein each query service [226] specifies information that is output in response to the used one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N].

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the computing platform is further programmed with an authorization service [232] that is functional to prevent access to participant data sources [240] to other than the one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] used by respective query services [226].

4. The computing system of claim 3, wherein the authorization service [232] is further functional to prevent access to any portion of a participant data source [240] that has not been authorized by the participant [238] as being available corresponding to the one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] used by at least one query service [226].

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the computing platform is further programmed with an attestation service [232] configured to log interactions involving participant data sources [240].

6. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the computing platform is further programmed with a computing system index service [234] configured to maintain a cache of information obtained from authorized portions of participant data sources [240] corresponding to individual query services [226] that use one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] operable on a small percentage of participant data sources [240].

7. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the computing platform is further programmed with indications from individual ones of the plurality of participants [238] authorizing some portion of their data sources [240] be available to one or more query sets used by at least one query service [226].

8. The computing system of claim 7, wherein the one or more query sets include all of the one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] used by at least one query service [226].

9. The computing system of claim 8, wherein the at least one query service [226] are categorized in hierarchies defined by a service taxonomy model [348] based on a type of service, type of results, and/or one or more sets of queries that are performed together.

10. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the computing platform [224] is further programmed with indications from individual ones of the plurality of participants [238] revoking authorization of some portion of their data sources [240] available to one or more queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] implemented by at least one query service [226] where a plurality of related query services [226] are invoked.

11. A method for a collaborative information system [701], comprising:

providing a quantity of query services to participants of a collaborative information system via a computing platform, each query service using a pre-defined group of queries on authorized portions of participant data sources [703];

configuring a service model to specify data inputs and outputs for each query service [709];

receiving authorization from a participant with respect to a data source provided by the participant to limit a query service to authorized portions of the participant'"'"'s data source [711]; and

storing the received authorization in an authorization model [713].

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising constraining, via an authorization and attestation service [232], each query service [226] to involve no more than the authorized portions of the participant'"'"'s data source [240] according to the authorization model [358], and to use no more than the pre-defined group of queries.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising logging, via a authorization and attestation service [232], interactions between each of the plurality of data sources [240] and the computing platform [224], and store reports thereof in a repository [474].

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising configuring a participant taxonomy model logic [352] to define groups of participants [238] that are permitted to invoke certain ones of the quantity of query services [226] that are further constrained to involve no more than particular ones of the plurality of the participant'"'"'s data sources [240].

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium [107] having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to provide:

a number of query services [226], each query service [226] using a number of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] operable on a plurality of data sources [240];

a service modeling service [228] to configure, before invocation, data inputs and result output attributes for each query service [226];

an authorization configuration service [230] to configure participant authorization of the number of query services [226];

an authorization service [232] to constrain access to the plurality of data sources [240] to those queries used by authorized query services involving authorized portions as indicated by a participant controlling the data source [240]; and

an index service 234 to configure an index [586, 692] to store information corresponding data sources [240] to the number of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N].