POLICY BASED POPULATION OF GENEALOGICAL ARCHIVE DATA

• US 20140358864A1
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: HALE, Michael D., PAN, Tian M., RENDAHL, Randy A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,183,206 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/667
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/113 Details of archiving lifecycle management in storage systems G06F3/0649; backup systems G06F11/1446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9027 Trees
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

An approach for managing a family tree archive is provided. The approach includes creating an electronic archive based on a family tree. The approach also includes automatically discovering Internet-based data associated with at least one member of the family tree. The approach additionally includes adding the Internet-based data to the archive. The approach further includes storing the archive at a storage device.

Claims

1. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure comprising a combination of hardware and software, the method comprising:

creating an electronic archive based on a family tree;

automatically discovering Internet-based data associated with at least one member of the family tree comprising;

crawling through a plurality of nodes and analyzing at least one website identified in at least one of the plurality of nodes;

inspecting the at least one website for at least one new link, wherein the at least one new link is a name that matches a name of a member of the family tree and links to another website which the user has an account;

requesting permission to update the at least one of the plurality of nodes with the at least one new link;

adding the Internet-based data from the at least one website to the archive; and

storing the archive at a storage device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the discovering, the adding, and the storing are performed by an archive engine associated with a computer device in a cloud environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the storage device is in a cloud environment, and further comprising providing users associated with the archive access to the archive via a Software as a Service (Saas) interface.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a plurality of nodes in the archive, wherein each respective one of the plurality of nodes corresponds to a respective member of the family tree.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each one of the plurality of nodes in the archive comprises a data structure that contains at least one of:

name, age, gender, birth date, place of birth, place of residence, job title, pictures, videos, relationship status, a link to an account at a website, and contact information.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the discovering comprises analyzing at least one website identified in one of the plurality of nodes in the archive for data to be added to the archive; and

the inspecting the at least one website for at least one new link comprises;

determining whether a new link is found;

sending a message to a user associated with the new link, requesting permission to update a node of a user with the new link to the at least one website;

adding the new link to the at least one website to the node of the user; and

analyzing the at least one website for data that complies with content policies.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the discovering comprises analyzing the at least one website identified in one of the plurality of nodes for a name that matches the name of a member of the family tree.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the discovering comprises analyzing the at least one website identified in one of the plurality of nodes for a link to another website at which a user associated with the one of the plurality of nodes has an account.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the discovering comprises analyzing the at least one website identified in one of the plurality of nodes for relationship status that defines a potential new node.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein the discovering comprises determining that the Internet-based data complies with at least one of content policies and relationship policies associated with the archive.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving an indication of the content policies from a user of the archive.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving an indication of the relationship policies from the user of the archive.

13. The method of claim 4, further comprising permitting a user associated with one of the plurality of nodes in the archive to input or upload data to the node.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising permitting a user to review the Internet-based data prior to the adding the Internet-based data to the archive.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the adding the Internet-based data to the archive comprises conditionally adding the Internet-based data to the archive, and further comprising:

permitting a user to review the Internet-based data; and

receiving an indication from the user permitting or denying formally adding the Internet-based data to the archive.

16. A system implemented in hardware and comprising a computer infrastructure operable to:

create an electronic archive including a plurality of nodes, wherein each respective one of the plurality of nodes corresponds to a respective member of a family tree;

discover data associated with at least one member of the family tree by crawling through the plurality of nodes and analyzing at least one other site identified in at least one of the plurality of nodes;

inspect the at least one other site for at least one new link and determining whether a new link is found, wherein the new link is a name on the at least one other site that matches at least one member of the family tree;

determine the data complies with a content policy defined for the archive;

receive approval from a user of the archive to add the data to the archive; and

add the data to the archive.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the inspecting further comprises:

sending a message to a user associated with the new link, requesting permission to update a node of a user with the new link to the at least one other site;

adding the new link to the at least one other site to the node of the user; and

analyzing the at least one other site for data that complies with content policies,

wherein the at least one other site comprises at least one of a social networking site and a professional networking site.

18. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage memory or device included in a hardware system having readable program code embodied in the storage memory or device included in the hardware system, wherein the computer program product includes at least one component operable to:

create an electronic archive including a plurality of nodes, wherein each respective one of the plurality of nodes corresponds to a respective member of a family tree;

discover data associated with at least one member of the family tree by crawling through the plurality of nodes and analyzing at least one website identified in at least one of the plurality of nodes, wherein the discovering comprises;

comparing the at least one member of the family tree to a list of contacts of a user associated with the at least one website, wherein the at least one website is at least one of a social networking website and a professional networking website which the user has an account; and

matching the at least one member of the family tree to at least one contact of the list of contacts; and

add the data to the electronic archive.