SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING DATA

• US 20140330883A1
• Filed: 04/07/2014
• Published: 11/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cybervore, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Cybervore, Inc.
• Inventors: FALKENBERG, David J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,602,585 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/33 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/83 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A system and method for obtaining information responsive to a legal discovery request directed at an enterprise having a plurality of databases that potentially include information responsive to the legal discovery request, including structured databases and at least one unstructured database. A plurality of taxonomies are provided, each of which describes a structure of one of the structured databases. An ontology is provided that describes data relationships between the databases. A native application is identified, which is configured to access at least one but not all of the databases associated with the enterprise. The native application is modified to include search functionality for accessing all of the databases associated with the enterprise. A request is received from the user, via the modified native application, to search the plurality of databases associated with the enterprise for information responsive to the legal discovery request. Information included in the request, the ontology and the taxonomies are then used to search the plurality of databases associated with the enterprise. A list of search results responsive to the search request is presented with the modified native application. In response to a user selection of a search result from the list, an application required to view the selected search result is automatically launched if the modified native application lacks functionality required to display the selected search result.

Claims

1. In a network having a plurality of nodes, wherein nodes enter and exit the network in a manner that is unpredictable, a method for improving data availability by fragmenting data across the network nodes, the method comprising:

(a) fragmenting the data across nodes in the network in order to increase a likelihood that the data will be available irrespective of a combination of nodes that are connected to the network at any given time; and

(b) wherein each fragment of data includes a header with control information that specifies how the fragment connects with other fragments stored in the network.

2. In a network having a plurality of nodes, wherein nodes enter and exit the network in a manner that is unpredictable, a system for improving data availability by fragmenting data across the network nodes, the system comprising:

(a) a software agent that fragments the data across nodes in the network in order to increase a likelihood that the data will be available irrespective of a combination of nodes that are connected to the network at any given time;

wherein each fragment of data includes a header with control information that specifies how the fragment connects with other fragments stored in the network.