MAPPING STORED CLIENT DATA TO REQUESTED DATA USING METADATA

• US 20160224530A1
• Filed: 04/13/2016
• Published: 08/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Campbell, Brad Lee, Hitchcock, Daniel W., Griffiths, Owen G.
• Application Number:
  US15/097,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224530A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/84 Mapping; Conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments that employ metadata to map stored client data to form fields and other data consumers. Data items are requested by a data consumer, such as a web form. Metadata is obtained that includes a mapping of standardized data items to the requested data items. The requested data items are generated based at least in part on the mapping and the standardized data items.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program that, when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to at least:

receive a plurality of standardized data items from a network service corresponding to a data provider, the plurality of standardized data items corresponding to standardized data types promulgated by a metadata central authority;

determine that a network page including a web form has been requested by a data consumer, the web form requesting a plurality of requested data items;

receive metadata from a network data service, the metadata including a mapping defining a correspondence between the plurality of requested data items requested and the plurality of standardized data items;

generate a subset of the plurality of requested data items requested by the web form based at least in part on the metadata and the plurality of standardized data items; and

execute a service call to the data consumer including the subset of the plurality of requested data items.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the program further causes the at least one computing device to generate a user interface to elicit a user-specified mapping of a data item of the plurality of requested data items to a standardized data item of the plurality of standardized data items.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2 wherein the subset of the plurality of requested data items does not contain the data item of the plurality of requested data items for which the user interface elicits the user-specified mapping.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the program further causes the at least one computing device to send a request to the metadata central authority to add the user-specified mapping of the data item to the standardized data item to metadata promulgated by the metadata central authority.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the program comprises at least one of:

an extension or a plugin of a browser.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the mapping includes a regular expression that defines an acceptable data format for at least one of the plurality of requested data items.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein generating the subset of the plurality of requested data items comprises correlating an identifier for one of the plurality of requested data items to one of a plurality of identifiers in the mapping, the plurality of identifiers individually corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of standardized data items.

8. A system, comprising:

a data store comprising a cache of metadata; and

a client computing device in communication with the data store, the client computing device being configured to at least;

determine that a network page including a form has been requested by a data consumer from a network data server, the form requesting a plurality of data items;

receive metadata corresponding to the network page, the metadata including a plurality of standardized data items;

generate the plurality of data items requested by the form based at least in part on the plurality of standardized data items and the metadata;

cause the plurality of data items to be entered into the form; and

submit the form to the network data server.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the client computing device is further configured to at least receive the plurality of standardized data items via a user interface, the plurality of standardized data items corresponding to standardized data types.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the client computing device is further configured to at least:

receive user input entered into the form in the network page for at least one of the plurality of data items; and

determine an additional standardized data item based at least in part on the user input; and

add the additional standardized data item to the plurality of standardized data items in the metadata.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the client computing device is further configured to determine whether the cache of metadata is valid, wherein the metadata is received from the cache of metadata in response to determining that the cache is valid and the metadata is received from a metadata service in response to determining that the cache is invalid.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the client computing device is further configured to send a request to the metadata service to determine whether the cache of the metadata is valid.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the client computing device is further configured to identify the data consumer based at least in part on a domain name of the network page.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the form is submitted to the network data server with the plurality of data items using at least one of:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET or HTTP POST.

15. A method comprising:

determining, via at least one of one or more computing devices, that a network page including a form has been requested by a data consumer, the form requesting a plurality of requested data items;

receiving, via at least one of the one or more computing devices, metadata from a network service, the metadata comprising a mapping of a plurality of standardized data items to the plurality of requested data items;

generating, via at least one of the one or more computing devices, the plurality of requested data items from the plurality of standardized data items based at least in part on the mapping; and

causing, via at least one of the one or more computing devices, the plurality of data items to be entered into the form.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising generating, via at least one of the one or more computing devices, a user interface to elicit an update to the mapping of the plurality of standardized data items to the plurality of requested data items.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising submitting, via at least one of the one or more computing devices, the form to the network service including the plurality of data items.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of data items are entered into the form by making a call to an Application Programming Interface (API) of the data consumer.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein receiving the metadata from the network service further comprises receiving, via at least one of the one or more computing devices, the network page including the metadata embedded within the network page.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the form is a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) web page form.