FEDERATED MANAGEMENT OF A PLURALITY OF METADATA STORAGE MECHANISMS

• US 20160092533A1
• Filed: 05/29/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Shank, Charles K.
• Granted Patent: US 10,210,228 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/256 in federated or virtual databases

Abstract

Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program for managing metadata for different distributed federated workspaces. A distributed metadata infrastructure is provided for supporting at least two different distributed federated workspaces. The distributed metadata infrastructure monitors the at least two different distributed federated workspaces to identify common metadata between the at least two different distributed federated workspaces. The distributed metadata infrastructure presents a consistent view of the common metadata.

Claims

1. A method for managing metadata for different distributed federated workspaces comprising:

providing a distributed metadata infrastructure supporting at least two different distributed federated workspaces;

monitoring, by the distributed metadata infrastructure, the at least two different distributed federated workspaces to identify common metadata between the at least two different distributed federated workspaces; and

presenting, by the distributed metadata infrastructure, a consistent view of the common metadata.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two different distributed federated workspaces are disjoint.

3. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

assembling one or more federated workspaces into groups based on at least one of topic, project or activity to dispatch distributed queries.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring utilizes a persistence layer in a workspace to achieve metadata liveness.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the persistence layer is used at an edge, and wherein the persistence layer that is used at the edge is maintained in a cloud computing environment.

6. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

utilizing a universally unique identifier (UUID) to uniquely reference an object common to the least the two different distributed federated workspaces.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a workspace in the at least two different federated workspaces has objects selected from a group consisting of documents, files, directories, videos, communities, and applications.