INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

• US 20130222389A1
• Filed: 11/07/2011
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kawamata, Tsunehisa
• Application Number:
  US13/823,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20130222389A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

An information processing device includes: a data schema storing means for storing data schemas representing data structures of graph data generated by the respective analysis engines; and an analysis data integrating means for integrating the graph data generated by the respective analysis engines. In each of the data schemas, path information for referring to the respective nodes in the graph data and node identification information for identifying the respective nodes are associated with each other. The analysis data integrating means is configured to receive the graph data that are analysis results from the respective analysis engines, and couple and integrate the graph data at the nodes whose node identification information are identical to each other based on the data schemas corresponding to the respective analysis engines.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

a data schema storing unit for storing data schemas which are set for respective analysis engines and represent data structures of graph data which are analysis results generated by the respective analysis engines and each include a plurality of connected nodes; and

an analysis data integrating unit for integrating the graph data that are the analysis results generated by the respective analysis engines, wherein;

in each of the data schemas stored by the data schema storing unit, path information for referring to the respective nodes in the graph data and node identification information for identifying the respective nodes referred to by the respective path information are associated with each other; and

the analysis data integrating unit is configured to receive the graph data that are the analysis results from the respective analysis engines, and couple and integrate the graph data at the nodes whose node identification information are identical to each other based on the data schemas corresponding to the respective analysis engines.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the analysis data integrating unit is configured to integrate one of the graph data and another one of the graph data by connecting, to a node included by the one graph data, another node which is included by the other graph data and connected to a node which is included by the other graph data and associated with information identical to the node identification information of the node included by the one graph data.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein:

in the data schema, identification information of a node located in a highest hierarchy in a data structure of the other graph data and identification information of a node located in any hierarchy of the one graph data are set to be identical to each other; and

the analysis data integrating unit is configured to integrate the one graph data and the other graph data by connecting a node located in a lower hierarchy than the highest hierarchy of the other graph data to below a node which is included by the one graph data and associated with identification information identical to the identification information of the node located in the highest hierarchy of the other graph data.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, comprising an execution sequence storing unit for storing an execution sequence of the analysis engines that generate the graph data to be integrated,

wherein the analysis data integrating unit is configured to integrate the graph data generated by the respective analysis engines executed in accordance with the execution sequence.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein the analysis data integrating unit is configured to:

execute each of the analysis engines in accordance with the execution sequence stored by the execution sequence storing unit;

receive graph data generated by the analysis engine from the said analysis engine and also graph identification information unique to the graph data;

give the graph identification information as graph identification information of an integration source to the analysis engine to be executed next in accordance with the execution sequence;

receive graph data generated by the analysis engine executed next from the said analysis engine and also the graph identification information of the integration source; and

integrate the graph data generated by the analysis engines that the received graph identification information are identical to each other.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein the analysis data integrating unit is configured to:

receive the graph data and the graph identification information from the analysis engine;

in a case that the received graph identification information is not stored in a storage device, store the received graph data and graph identification information into the storage device; and

in a case that the received graph identification information is stored in the storage device, integrate the received graph data with the graph data stored in the storage device in association with the received graph identification information.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, comprising:

an execution rule storing unit for storing execution process information representing a process to be executed corresponding to information registered into the node of the graph data, in association with the node identification information for identifying the said node; and

a process executing unit for, based on the information stored by the execution rule storing unit, executing the process represented by the execution process information associated with the node identification information of the node in which predetermined information has been registered by the analysis data integrating unit.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein:

the execution rule storing unit is configured to store, as a condition for executing the process represented by the execution process information, execution condition information registered into the node corresponding to the node identification information associated with the execution process information; and

the process executing unit is configured to, when the execution condition information stored by the execution rule storing unit is registered into the node by the analysis data integrating unit, execute the process represented by the execution process information associated with the node identification information of the said node.

9. The information processing device according to claim 7, comprising an execution sequence storing unit for storing an execution sequence of the analysis engines that generate the graph data to be integrated, wherein:

the analysis data integrating unit is configured to, every time each of the graph data is generated by each of the analysis engines executed in accordance with the execution sequence, execute integration of the graph data; and

the process executing unit is configured to operate every time the analysis data integrating unit executes the integration of the graph data.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program comprising instructions for causing an information processing device including a data schema storing unit for storing data schemas which are set for respective analysis engines and represent data structures of graph data which are analysis results generated by the respective analysis engines and each include a plurality of connected nodes, to realize an analysis data integrating unit for integrating the graph data that are the analysis results generated by the respective analysis engines, wherein:

in each of the data schemas stored by the data schema storing unit, path information for referring to the respective nodes in the graph data and node identification information for identifying the respective nodes referred to by the respective path information are associated with each other; and

the analysis data integrating unit is configured to receive the graph data that are the analysis results from the respective analysis engines, and couple and integrate the graph data at the nodes whose node identification information are identical to each other based on the data schemas corresponding to the respective analysis engines.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the analysis data integrating unit is configured to integrate one of the graph data and another one of the graph data by connecting, to a node included by the one graph data, another node which is included by the other graph data and connected to a node which is included by the other graph data and associated with information identical to the node identification information of the node included by the one graph data.

12. An information processing method by an information processing device including a data schema storing unit for storing data schemas which are set for respective analysis engines and represent data structures of graph data which are analysis results generated by the respective analysis engines and each include a plurality of connected nodes, wherein in each of the data schemas stored by the data schema storing unit, path information for referring to the respective nodes in the graph data and node identification information for identifying the respective nodes referred to by the respective path information are associated with each other,

the information processing method comprising:

in integration of the graph data that are the analysis results generated by the respective analysis engines, receiving the graph data that are the analysis results from the respective analysis engines, and coupling and integrating the graph data at the nodes whose node identification information are identical to each other based on the data schemas corresponding to the respective analysis engines.

13. The information processing method according to claim 12, comprising:

in the integration of the graph data, integrating one of the graph data and another one of the graph data by connecting, to a node included by the one graph data, another node which is included by the other graph data and connected to a node which is included by the other graph data and associated with information identical to the node identification information of the node included by the one graph data.